Re: [Xsltforms-support] Can you use the date picker without setting the type to xs:date?

[Philip F. <Phi...@ma...>]

Florent wrote:

> Isn't that the purpose of xf:bind/@required?  
> Which anyway has the default "false".

The issue with xs:date, for example, is that a value of '' is not a valid date and cases where a field that contains a non-mandatory date the type xs:date cannot be used but the user may still desire a date-picker control. I wonder whether the appearance attribute has a role in this but that'd be purely implementation dependant.

The only practical work around is to use a check box to control the relevance of the date field and then the problem goes away because no validation errors will be generated until the field is enabled.


Regards

Philip


-----Original Message-----
From: Florent Georges [mailto:li...@fg...] 
Sent: 09 March, 2011 4:03 PM
To: xsl...@li...; Philip Fennell
Subject: Re: [Xsltforms-support] Can you use the date picker without setting the type to xs:date?

Philip Fennell wrote:

  Hi,

> If I set the type attribute on an xf:bind to xs:date then a
> date picker is rendered for a control that uses that bind.
> However, the xs:date type does not allow for empty values and
> therefore cannot be used where a date field might have no
> value.

  Isn't that the purpose of xf:bind/@required?  Which anyway has
the default "false".

  Regards,

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Florent Georges
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