Re: [Xsltforms-support] New release: Please give it a try!

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Great! Works perfectly now. Looking forward to the XML Prague proceedings
and video for your presentation with Steven Pemberton.

Thanks again,
Tim

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Tim A. Thompson
Discovery Metadata Librarian
Yale University Library

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 4:00 PM Alain Couthures <
ala...@ag...> wrote:

> Hello Tim,
>
> (1) The xf:group processing was not correct: in the new approach, an
> xf-bound attribute has to be automatically added to each xforms-* element
> when xf-ref (or xf-bind) is evaluated as a non empty nodeset. CSS attribute
> selectors are, then, used to display/hide xforms-* elements accordingly.
>
> (2) The xf:var processing was not functional: it should now work, at
> least, outside of actions.
>
> (3) The profiler is actually just another external form: I have added the
> corresponding file into the updated .zip file at
> www.agencexml.com/1.5beta/xsltforms.zip
>
> Thank you very much for your contributions!
>
> --Alain
>
> Le 09/02/2020 à 20:51, Tim Thompson a écrit :
>
> Hello, Alain,
>
> I've been testing an existing form with the new release and have some
> feedback. First, the performance improvement seems impressive, and CSS
> styling with Bootstrap now seems much easier. Thank you!
>
> I did notice some issues after testing, however.
>
> (1)
> There seems to be a bug with XPath predicate filtering in xf:group
> elements. For example, a group binding such as <xf:group
> ref="instance('response')/response[*]">...</xf:group>, where the response
> element should initially be empty (before a submission is executed) does
> not seem to work.
>
> See the test form copied below. Example form at:
> https://www.tat2.io/basex2/static/xsltforms_test_2020-02-09.xml
>
> (2)
> I see that the xforms:var element is not currently supported. When loading
> a form with an XForms variable defined, I get an error message:
>
> Error initializing:
>
> xforms:var is not supported
>
> (3)
> I also see that the XSLTForms Profiler does not seem to be available. When
> I try to open it, I get an error:
>
> File not found (404):
> https://www.tat2.io/basex2/static/xsltforms_profiler.xhtml
>
>
> *--Test form for XPath predicate bug--*
>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="..."?>
> <html xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="
> http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
> xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ev="
> http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>   <head>
>     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
>     <title>XForms/XPath Predicate Test</title>
>     <style type="text/css"/>
>     <model xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" id="m">
>       <instance id="default">
>         <data xmlns="">
>           <default/>
>         </data>
>       </instance>
>       <instance id="response">
>         <data xmlns="">
>           <response/>
>         </data>
>       </instance>
>       <instance id="response-test">
>         <data xmlns="">
>           <response>
>             <testing>Testing</testing>
>           </response>
>         </data>
>       </instance>
>     </model>
>   </head>
>   <body>
>     <div class="container-fluid">
>       <hr class="blue" />
>       <h1>XForms/XPath predicate test</h1>
>       <xf:group ref="instance('response')/response[*]">
>         <h2 style="color: red;">This should not display!</h2>
>         <xf:output value="concat('Value of &quot;serialize(.)&quot;: ',
> serialize(.))"/>
>       </xf:group>
>       <xf:group ref="instance('response-test')/response[*]">
>         <h2 style="color: blue;">This should display.</h2>
>         <xf:output value="concat('Value of &quot;serialize(.)&quot;: ',
> serialize(.))"/>
>       </xf:group>
>     </div>
>   </body>
> </html>
>
>
>
> --
> Tim A. Thompson
> Discovery Metadata Librarian
> Yale University Library
>
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:06 AM Tim Thompson <tim...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hello, Alain,
>>
>> Congratulations on this milestone! I am very eager to try and test the
>> new release. Is XSLTForms now using Fleur for XPath parsing? Does this mean
>> that XPath 3.0 functions are now supported? I guess I can test this myself
>> :)
>>
>> It's quite amazing to see the xsltforms.xsl file down to just over 500
>> lines.
>>
>> Thanks again for all your work.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tim A. Thompson
>> Discovery Metadata Librarian
>> Yale University Library
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 3:16 PM Alain Couthures <
>> ala...@ag...> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Please find a new release for XSLTForms at
>>> www.agencexml.com/1.5beta/xsltforms.zip
>>>
>>> It has not yet been fully tested because a lot of changes have been made
>>> and you are welcome to locate remaining issues with your own forms.
>>>
>>> The XSLT part has been reduced to minimal for better performance.
>>> Instead of parsing the XPath expressions and transforming all the XForms
>>> elements into HTML elements, it basically just transposes the non-HTML
>>> elements into sort-of custom elements: xforms:* elements become xforms-*
>>> elements with xf-* and ev-* attributes.
>>>
>>> Have a look with your favorite browser debugger! Actually, authors could
>>> even prefer to directly write/generate forms with this new notation and
>>> forget about the XSLT step. You can compare two sources for the same form:
>>> hello.xml and hello.htm
>>>
>>> XSLTForms Javascript classes constructors are obtaining their properties
>>> directly from xf-* attributes and XPath parsing is then performed.
>>>
>>> No ids are automatically added as previously.
>>>
>>> Extra xf-* attributes and extra xforms-* elements are used to embed
>>> effective HTML rendering elements, for example, xforms-body or
>>> xforms-repeat-item while, before, span or div elements where used.
>>>
>>> XSLTForms classes for xforms:select and xforms:itemset had to be
>>> partially rewritten.
>>>
>>> SVG support has been basically tested too.
>>>
>>> CSS styling is not anymore based on xforms-* classes but on custom
>>> element names and attribute selectors. For example, the extra xf-bound
>>> attribute, when present, says that the XForms control is bound to a node,
>>> eventually a not relevant one, and the extra xf-notrelevant attribute can,
>>> then, be checked...
>>>
>>> Thank you for your contribution!
>>>
>>> --Alain
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