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Re: normalizedString/input and string/textarea?

by John Boyer :: Rate this Message:

Hi Alain,

xsd:string is the almost-right datatype, and so there has been no priority on doing better.
normalizedString does stuff to a string that we would not want.
The exact right datatype would be one pattern derived from string with the regex pattern [^\n] as the only thing input really says differently than textarea is single line input.

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John M. Boyer, Ph.D.
Distinguished Engineer, IBM Forms and Smarter Web Applications
IBM Canada Software Lab, Victoria
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From: Alain Couthures <alain.couthures@...>
To: "www-forms@..." <www-forms@...>
Date: 04/14/2011 09:03 AM
Subject: normalizedString/input and string/textarea?
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Hello, I'm still perplex about the differences between core forms input controls. More specifically, if I want to edit an instance according to types, I would consider that xsd:string is not correct for xf:input but for xf:textarea. It is obvious that the carriage return, line feed and tab characters cannot be entered using xf:input but xf:textarea. So, why isn't xsd:normalizedString the default type for xf:input? Thank you very much for your answers! Alain Couthures <agenceXML>http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms

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