282166 - XForms Bind attribute doesn't work inside SVG foreignObject element.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Andrew Douglas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M3)

The xforms output element isn't displaying the content when it is bound to an
xforms instance. Hard Coding a value for the output element works as expected.
This behavior is only broken when the xforms output element is inside an svg
foreignObject element. Binding works correctly when the xforms output element is
inside standard XHTML. Note: You will need an SVG enabled build.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
place an xforms output element (bound to an xforms instance) inside an SVG
foreignObject element.

Actual Results:  
The bound content wasn't displayed.

Expected Results:  
The bound content would be displayed just as if there was a "hard-coded" value
inside the xforms output element.

See http://artforms.progressivex.com/mozilla/sample01.xml for an example of a
hardcoded value in the output element. It works as expected.

Comment 1

[aaronr]

Attachment: testcase using xhtml

This testcase shows the same problem using xhtml.  Note that it waits 3 seconds
after document load to update the span contents.

Comment 2

[aaronr]

looks to be in SVG with foreignObject not revalidating correctly.  We are
setting our anonymous content text value just fine.

Comment 3

[Allan Beaufour]

> See http://artforms.progressivex.com/mozilla/sample01.xml for an example of a
> hardcoded value in the output element. It works as expected.

I'm having problems with fonts and SVG in my build, but either way you are not
using output correctly, you need to use f.x. <output value="'test'"/>, and I
will personally not give any guarantees for documents without at least one
<model> and one <instance>.

Comment 4

[Allan Beaufour]

I looked a bit more into it. You also need to set @height too, dont you?
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/extend.html#ForeignObjectElement

... doesn't fix the problem though. But I agree with Aaron (comment 2): I do not
think that it is XForms that fails. Do foreignObject work at all? I cannot seem
to get a XHTML element rendered either. It also complains:

WARNING: Can't render foreignObject element!, file nsSVGForeignObjectFrame.cpp,
line 465

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

works for me with the latest trunk.

Comment 7

[aaronr]

works for me, too, on trunk.