[Xsltforms-support] Data models containing attributes, problem: no display

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Hi,

first of all: XSLTForms is great fun to work with. Thanks for providing it.

Some extremely awkward behavior can be experienced if my data models
contain attributes: the content of the forms will not show for these
subtrees, nor the input fields.

I am using XSLTForms Beta 3 r508, tested with Firefox 5.01 and Chrome
12.0.742.122 on  Mac OS X (Snow Leopard), tested with Apache access
(XAMPP) and file access.

Extremely simplified example (does not work, attribute at CMD element at
the model, output and input will not display):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="xsltforms/xsltforms.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xsltforms-options debug="yes"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
    <head>
        <title>Some title</title>
        <xf:model>
            <xf:instance>
                <CMD someattribute="somevalue">
                    <ResourceName>My Tool</ResourceName>
                </CMD>
            </xf:instance>
        </xf:model>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>ResourceName: <xf:output
ref="/CMD/ResourceName"></xf:output></h1>
        <xf:input ref="/CMD/ResourceName">
            <xf:label>ResourceName</xf:label>
        </xf:input>
    </body>
</html>

Extremely simplified  example (Does work, no attribute at CMD element in
the model):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="xsltforms/xsltforms.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xsltforms-options debug="yes"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace">
    <head>
        <title>Some title</title>
        <xf:model>
            <xf:instance>
                <CMD>
                    <ResourceName>My Tool</ResourceName>
                </CMD>
            </xf:instance>
        </xf:model>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>ResourceName: <xf:output
ref="/CMD/ResourceName"></xf:output></h1>
        <xf:input ref="/CMD/ResourceName">
            <xf:label>ResourceName</xf:label>
        </xf:input>
    </body>
</html>

This behavior is reproducible, also for "exotic" attributes such as
xml:lang or xmlns="...", etc. As my data model is not fully under my
control (and I certainly cannot get rid of attributes in general) I
wonder if anybody experienced something similar or if there is a way
around that.

Thorsten