[Betterform-developer] getting information from the xform markup to a dojo class

[Daniel E. <dan...@un...>]

Hi everyone,

I'm working with a cutsom dojo-class used as a betterFORM-control. The 
javascript-objects need to have some information that can defined in the 
xfomrs code. I did this by adding some custom attributes to the 
xform-controls like the services attribute in this example

<xf:textarea appereance="custom" ref="."services="{$services}"  />

By adding
<xsl:if test="@appereance = 'custom'">
<xsl:attribute name="services"><xsl:value-of 
select="@services"/></xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>

in the dojo.xsl in the buildControl-template

and

  else if(appereance && appereance.toLowerCase() == "custom") {

             return new my.customTextarea({
                 name:controlId + "-value",

                 services:dojo.attr(sourceNode,"services"),

                 "class":classValue,
                 title:dojo.attr(sourceNode,"title"),
                 xfControlId:controlId
                 }, sourceNode);
         }

in the UIElementFactoryImpl.
In this way the information is available in the constructor of the 
dojo-class.

My problem is, that this doesn't work when inserting a node into a 
repeat structure bound to a custom textarea. In this case, the attribute 
is null.
I couldn't find out why and how to fix this. Any advice how to solve this?

Or is there a better approach to get information from the xform markup 
to the dojo-class?

Cheers Daniel

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