Re: [Xsltforms-support] XLSForms and XSLTForms: the default uuid() and how best to handle it

[pedro w. <ped...@go...>]

HI Alain

Thank you for your helpful reply.  I have also been in touch with the
XSLForms development team about the "select1" issue as a nodeset type, and
the appropriate action is to correct that application.  I will see what can
be done with them.  I will cover the default namespace for instances there
too.

The uuid() function would be helpful.  This is included as an
application-specific function in Orbeon, under their xxf: namespace afaik,
and it would be a common convenience function between XSLTForms, Orbeon and
the ODK XSLForms.

I think that the XSLForms  ( https://github.com/XLSForm/pyxform ) approach
could be very helpful to introduce teams gently into XForms.  The graphical
interface in PurcForms (https://github.com/dkayiwa/purcforms)  is another
helpful tool that can serve a similar purpose.

Many thanks for your amazing work

Peter


On 18 December 2017 at 21:31, Alain Couthures <ala...@ag...
> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Adding support for uuid() in XSLTForms was not difficult, it will be
> committed as soon as possible.
>
> Yet, "select1" is not a valid type: as a workaround, it can be defined as
> a synonym for "string"...
>
> Then, there is still a namespace issue in the generated form: xmlns="" has
> to be added to the root element of the instance.
>
> Finally, "form-data-post" is not yet implemented in XSLTForms but it would
> be possible...
>
> What do you think?
>
> Alain
>
>
> Le 18/12/2017 à 16:17, pedro winstley via Xsltforms-support a écrit :
>
> Dear colleagues
>
> I realise that we can use the XLSForms ( http://xlsform.org/ ) editor to
> create XForms that will work with XSLTForms (there is going to be acronym
> hell here), but the XSLForms automatically creates a bind for a uuid
> element and uses a function "uuid()".  How can this best be implemented in
> XSLTForms so that I can bring in an XLSForm XForm without any editing?
>
> I show an illustration of XLSForms output below
>
> Many thanks
>
> Peter
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <h:html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/
> 2001/xml-events" xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:jr="
> http://openrosa.org/javarosa" xmlns:orx="http://openrosa.org/xforms"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
>   <h:head>
>     <h:title>test_form1</h:title>
>     <model>
>       <submission action="http://xformstest.org/cgi-bin/echoinstance.sh"
> method="form-data-post"/>
>       <instance>
>         <test_form1 id="test_form1">
>           <today/>
>           <gender/>
>           <age/>
>           <meta>
>             <instanceID/>
>           </meta>
>         </test_form1>
>       </instance>
>       <bind jr:preload="date" jr:preloadParams="today"
> nodeset="/test_form1/today" type="date"/>
>       <bind nodeset="/test_form1/gender" type="select1"/>
>       <bind nodeset="/test_form1/age" type="int"/>
>       <bind calculate="concat('uuid:', uuid())" nodeset="/test_form1/meta/instanceID"
> readonly="true()" type="string"/>
>     </model>
>   </h:head>
>   <h:body>
>     <select1 ref="/test_form1/gender">
>       <label>Respondent's gender</label>
>       <item>
>         <label>Male</label>
>         <value>male</value>
>       </item>
>       <item>
>         <label>Female</label>
>         <value>female</value>
>       </item>
>     </select1>
>     <input ref="/test_form1/age">
>       <label>Respondent's age</label>
>     </input>
>   </h:body>
> </h:html>
>
>
>
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