505022 - Support XForms Datatypes to allow empty content

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: XForms, defect)

Description

[Gary Setter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla XForms 0.8.6ff3 and Firefox 3.0.8

In the XForms 1.1 spec, section 5.2.1 'Additional XForms Datatypes to 
Allow Empty Content', there is a list of types that we can use to 
validate input on the client side without making the field required. 
As I understand the specification, the same set of data types are suppose to be available in the XML Schema namespace and the XForms namespace. The types in  the XML Schema namespace are required but the types in the XForms namespace are not. Please implement the types in  the XForms namespace.

See also  the Google groups topic http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.xforms/browse_thread/thread/ebf96f991123b419



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a form that uses <xf:bind nodeset="wholeField" type="xf:integer">
2. Load the form.
3. The fields that are bound the wholeField show do not validate.
4. Submit the form.
Actual Results:  

5. Submit fails

Expected Results:  
5 Submit should succeed

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Bug 97806 is on xforms,

Comment 2

[aaronr]

Working on a fix for this.

I'll attach a patch that works on the validation side, but still have to get this working so that not only do we validate xforms types with empty strings, but have to make sure that a xf:input bound to a xforms:boolean, for example, will show up as a checkbox.

Comment 3

[aaronr]

Attachment: first attempt

Comment 4

[aaronr]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 5

[aaronr]

Attachment: second attempt

added the xforms schema to our chrome and hooked it into model creation

Comment 6

[aaronr]

Ugh, xforms types are unions, which screws up our 'typelist' that we build in nsxformsmodelelement.cpp.  Will probably have to special case them otherwise a xf:input bound to a xforms:boolean type won't be a checkbox.

Comment 8

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

RIP xforms