XForms and multiple inputs for same model tag
- by iHeartGreek
Hi!
I apologize ahead of time if I am not asking this properly.. it is hard to put into words what I am asking..
I have XForms model such as:
<file>
<criteria>
<criterion></criterion>
</criteria>
</file>
I want to have multiple input text boxes that create a new criterion tag.
user interface such as:
<xf:input ref="/file/criteria/criterion" model="select_data">
<xf:label>Select</xf:label>
</xf:input>
<xf:input ref="/file/criteria/criterion" model="select_data">
<xf:label>Select</xf:label>
</xf:input>
<xf:input ref="/file/criteria/criterion" model="select_data">
<xf:label>Select</xf:label>
</xf:input>
And I would like the XML output to look like this (once user has entered in info):
<file>
<criteria>
<criterion>AAA</criterion>
<criterion>BBB</criterion>
<criterion>CCC</criterion>
</criteria>
</file>
The way I have it doesn't work, as it sees the 3 input fields to be referring all to the same criterion tag. How do I differentiate?
Thanks! I hope that made some sense!
BEGIN FIRST EDIT
Thanks for the responses for the basic text box!
However, I now need to do this with a listbox. But for the life of me, I can't figure out how. I read somewhere to use with the xforms:select and deselect events.. but I didn't know where to place them, and the places I tried gave me very weird behaviour.
I am currently implementing the following:
<xf:select ref="instance('criteria_data')/criteria/criterion" selection="" appearance="compact" >
<xf:label>Choose criteria</xf:label>
<xf:itemset nodeset="instance('criteria_choices')/choice">
<xf:label ref="@label"></xf:label>
<xf:value ref="."></xf:value>
</xf:itemset>
</xf:select>
However when multiple choices are submitted, all selection values are inserted into the same node, separated by spaces.
For example:
If AAA and BBB and FFF were selected from listbox, it would result in the following XML:
<criterion>AAA BBB FFF</criterion>
How do I change my code to have each selection be in a separate node?
i.e. I want it to look like this:
<criterion>AAA</criterion>
<criterion>BBB</criterion>
<criterion>FFF</criterion>
Thanks!
END FIRST EDIT
BEGIN SECOND EDIT:
For the listboxes (ie xf:select appearance="compact")
I ended up allowing the spaces to occur in the same node and then just transformed that xml using xsl to generate a properly formatted new xml doc (with separate individual nodes). Unfortunately, I did not find a less cumbersome solution by inserting them originally into separate nodes.
The selected answer works very well for text boxes however, hence why I selected it as the answer.
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