Re: XForms disappointed beginner

Aaron Reed wrote:
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> Its takes a little bit to get the hang of writing XForms.  Did you try 
> running your form through an XForms validator?  There is one at: 
> http://xformsinstitute.com/validator/  When I put your form through the 
> validator (the first step I always do when something isn't working the 
> way that I think that it should) I got some errors.  Firstly, you need 
> to namespace qualify the instance.  If you are using xpath expressions 
> to get to the instance without namespaces, then you need to put xmlns="" 
> on either the xf:instance node or on the root node of the instance 
> document (the first child node of the xf:instance).  This is covered in 
> the XForms:Essentials book, but you may have missed it when you were 
> reading it.  "The instance data XML itself is not defined in any 
> namespace, so the xmlns="" declaration is essential to turn off the 
> default XHTML namespace that would otherwise be in effect at this 
> point."  When I did that to your form, I got the numbers to appear.
> 
> Then I changed the value of 'required' to 43, saw the value change in 
> the calculate when I tabbed out of the field and when I clicked on the 
> save button it saved fine to my local disc.  When I changed the required 
> field to 'aa' I saw calc go to NaN and save was NOT successful because 
> the required field did not contain a valid integer.
> 
> I got what you need to make relevant do what you want it to do, too. Use 
> this bind: <xf:bind id="Relevant" relevant="../Required &gt; 5" 
> nodeset="Relevant" />.  Of course, to make it hide under Mozilla you'll 
> have to style it.  We don't support pseudo classes quite yet, so you'd 
> have to use the temporary attribute that we set on it.  So the style 
> would look like this: xf|*[disabled] {display: none; }.  For Novell's 
> plugin or formsPlayer, that should look like: xf|*:disabled {display: 
> none; }, I believe.
> 
> I hope that this helps,
> --Aaron

Hi Aaron,

the namespace adaption works, thank you very much
the styling however I can not get to work

<style type="text/css">
   xf|*[disabled] {display: none;}
</style>

Alex