Re: [Chiba-users] Problem with XPath ?

[Martin W. <mwe...@pl...>]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 12:00, Florian Lacoste wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm currently experiencing some problem. I have to use an application 
> that generate and displays forms using chiba (core 1.1.1). The xhtml 
> form page is stocked on the server, and it uses two instances (one to 
> submit, one with the differents label values) that are stocked as 
> context objects.
> 
> I'm trying to improve a little this forms but I can only modify the file 
> xform.xhtml with the basic form. When I add a conditional relevant 
> attribute in a bind, it doesn't work. In fact if the condition is "this 
> attribute='this value'", it's always false and if it is "this 
> attribute!='this value'", it's always true.
> 
> Does someone know where this could come from ?  A problem in 
> interpreting XPath ? Bad definitions in a css ?  Some class somewhere 
> mixing with the default behavior ?  I only used chiba-web till now so I 
> don't really know what to expect.
> 
> Thanks for the help.

Let's try to force more knowledgeable people to to step in ;) 

May be, what is returned by 'this value' is the node, not the value.
May be 'this value' is not a string. I would first try to use the number() or
string() functions to make sure you are not comparing apples and oranges.

2c, M.