Re: [Exist-open] [XForms] How to insert items into an empty node

[Florian S. <ml-...@fl...>]

Hi,

if the XForms engine you're using is XForms 1.1 capable (Orbeon, for
example), you could use the context attribute to determine the context
for the insert action:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-xforms-20091020/#action-insert
http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/reference-xforms-guide#insert-origin-attribute

With XForms 1.0, insert is supposed to work only on "homogenous
collections" (see [1]), so problems are likely to happen if the parent
node of the insert target is empty (as in your case).

So, the solution depends on the XForms engine you're using.


HTH
florian

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xforms-20071029/#action-insert