Re: [cforms] binding to an element with namespaces fails.

[Josep A. Frau]

En/na Thorsten Scherler ha escrit: Answering my own question: On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 13:47 +0200, Thorsten Scherler wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with the binding to elements that have a namespace declared. I am using the dynamicrepeater example. I saved the outcome of the example to a file form.save(doc); saveDocument(doc, "PATH_TO_SAVE_THE_FILE"). I then changed the example code a wee bit further by adding form.load("URI_TO_DATA"); before the form.showForm("DYNAMICREPEATER"); I have now the form showing up with the values I used before (like I suspected). When I change in the input file ("URI_TO_DATA"): <contracts xmlns="http://testing.com/"> ... </contracts> then I do not see the preselection and cannot save the form anymore. If you do not use the standard namespace (xmlns="http://testing.com/") but xmlns:contracts="http://testing.com/" then it is working again. Is this a bug that I cannot use the standard namespace? salu2 When you use a default namespace all elements without explicit namespace are in the default namespace. This document: [doc1] <contacts xmlns="http://testing.com/"> ... </contacts> is equals to: [doc2] <contacts:contacts xmlns:contacts="http://testing.com/" > ... </contacts:contacts> not to: [doc3] <contacts xmlns:contacts="http://testing.com/" > ... </contacts:contacts> In the [doc3] the contacts element has not namespace while in the [doc1] and [doc2] documents  the contacts element is in the "http://testing.com/" In the binding document you must match contacts:contacts and not just contacts if you use a default namespace. The binding document must be: <fb:context xmlns:fb="http://apache.org/cocoon/forms/1.0#binding" xmlns:contacts="http://testing.com/" path="."> <fb:simple-repeater id="contacts" parent-path="contacts:contacts" row-path="contacts:contact"> <fb:value id="ID" path="@id"/> <fb:value id="firstname" path="contacts:firstname"/> <fb:value id="lastname" path="contacts:lastname"/> </fb:simple-repeater> </fb:context> I think this must work, but I don't test it. Today I see tree pages [1][2][3] about the problems with default namespaces, maybe the binding xpath have this problems too: [1]http://www.anyware-tech.com/blogs/sylvain/archives/000213.html [2]http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/02/25/qanda.html [3]http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/archives/008806.html -- Josep A. Frau Centre de Tecnologies de la Informació Universitat de les Illes Balears