On Sun, 5 Dec 2021, Ralph Corrigan wrote:
Hi all, You were kind enough to help me earlier in the year when I was
looking
at xsltforms for the first time, and things have moved a long way from
there. But I'm hitting a problem going back through the documents and
forms trying to make them conformant with TEI (not my choice, because
we're not actually encoding text, but anyway). These problems arose
early on, so I removed it and ran everything through the empty namespace
(xmlns="").
So target (e.g.) is:
<TEI xmlns=""> ....................
<listPerson/>
</TEU>
And the instance that populates it is:
<xf:instance id"XX">
<items xmlns="">
<listPerson/>
</items>
</xf:instance>.
On the form itself, the input fields all use the xf: prefix, so
<xf:input ref="instance('XX')/listPerson/person"> etc. An xquery POST
then inserts the instance data (using request:get-data()/*) into the
original xml document.
This all works absolutely fine and does everything I would expect it to.
However, if I change the namespace in the instance to <items
xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0";> [1] the xf:input fields no longer
render. Try as I might, wherever I put the namespace declaration on the
form (and even if I add it to the xsltforms.xsl) the fields no longer
render. I have noticed that there is no reference to the TEI namespace
in the finally generated header, which I'#m guessing could be the
problem, but I've no idea how to get it there:
<html xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan";
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/";
xmlns:ajx="http://www.ajaxforms.net/2006/ajx";
xmlns:txs="http://www.agencexml.com/txs";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";><!--HTML elements
generated by XSLTForms 1.5.5 (661) - Copyright (C) 2021 <agenceXML> -
Alain Couthures - http://www.agencexml.com-->.
I thought I'd be able to work around it by calling a src instance from
the main TEI namespace xml document, but this runs into the same
problem.
Any ideas about how I get round this (or do it properly in the first
place)! If not sorted yet, please will you by reply, attach the smallest
complete xform and any instance(s) that are not working as you'd expect.
I'm not a 'namespace' guru, but namespaces I find can be quite testing.
Thank you
Habs
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On Sun, 5 Dec 2021, Ralph Corrigan wrote:
Thanks for getting back to me, Habs:
So a short illustrative example attached. This form works fine in
exist-db, and I've declared tei in the html header (although clearly
there is nothing prefixed with 'tei'), all good. But as soon as I try
and apply the tei namespace to the listPerson instance (I've tried
adding it everywhere), the form fields no longer render (and don't
appear to be loaded at all). I've tried adding the tei prefix to the
instance, the form fields and both at the same time, but still not got
anywhere yet...
Any suggestions gratefully received!
Cheers
Ralph
Please see attached.
A little tip I learned a long time ago for xhtml forms and namespaces,
was to use two additional ones ... I cannot for the life in me,
remember why ! If it's obvious to you let me know please.
I think it has something to do with clashes between [default] xform
namespaces and other namespaces in the instance(s).
I've edited your example and it is sorted now on my setup. Note the
xmlns:my and my:dummy additions, the xmlns in the instance and the
changes using my: in the form.
Hopefully that answers your need.
Regards
Habs
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On Sun, 5 Dec 2021, Ralph Corrigan wrote:
Thanks so much, Habs! Slightly different behaviour on my set up to
yours, in that I had to prefix each element in the Xpath (so
ref="my:person/my:persName/my:forename") but that's doable. You're
absolutely right about the dummy namespace: I can't think of any reason
why that would be a useful feature to introduce.
Anyway, problem solved - onto the next one.
Thanks again
Ralph
On 05/12/2021 19:22, Habs wrote:
Good.
Sorry, I missed out the requirement for each part of the xpath. That is
indeed required when using namespace prefix.
I am not sure (I don't think it is) this is an XSLTForms issue, or just one
generally with the XForms standards and the way namespaces work.
Someone else with more knowledge may be able to explain why this solution
works.
Regards and best wishes
Habs
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