Re: AW: Re: Xforms support in OOO2.0 Beta

Hello René,

You wrote:
> I've created a form in OOwriter 1.9.87 and failed to write the XML 
> data to disk. I have tried to do it via save as, or export without 
> success, so I put in a button and also created a submission, but 
> still nothing happens. The instance data seems to be filled correctly 
> (at least most of it as I was not able to create an element that can 
> occur multiple times). I have upgraded to OO 1.9.91 after your email 
> yesterday, Pedro, but that doesn't seem to change anything.

Ah, many thanks for the document. I think I found the problem with the 
help of your document: According to the XForms spec (section 11.1), any 
invalid data stops the submission process. In your document, some data 
is invalid, and hence the submission aborts.

Now... I guess the best way would be to inform the user, and give 
him/her an option to continue. We will do that, but probably not now, 
because last-minute changes to resource strings are problematic for 
internationalization. I think we should ignore the invalid state for 
now, until we have a better solution (with user interaction) available.


> I also tried to generate another instance to serve as a data source 
> for a combo box, but failed again. It's not the binding, or anything 
> like that, but I am missing a way to put data into the instance.

When you create  (or edit) an instance, you can supply a URL from which 
to load the data. If you check on the 'link' box, the data will be 
re-loaded (<xforms:instance src="...">); if the box is not checked, the 
data will be loaded once.

> P.S.: By the way: shouldn't it be possible to create an instance by 
> loading a schema or an XML document?

XML document: Yes, see above.
Schema: This would be nice, but we haven't implemented this yet.



Sincerely,
Daniel