XForms, Repeat into table

Motivation

Developers frequently desire to display XML data in tabular structures. Unfortunately the HTML **** implementations used in many browsers do not lend themselves to modification.

To circumvent this problem XForms allows you to use repeat inside a table row as an attribute to the HTML **** element. So instead of using a **** element you use a xf:repeat-nodeset attribute. Note that you must have the xf prefix on the attribute. This is different then the usual process.

Note: This example does not run under the FireFox 0.6 or the 0.7 extension. See Bug 280368 for details.

Sample Program

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms">;

Repeat Into Table Using xf:repeat-nodeset

type="text/javascript" src="formfaces.js">

xmlns="">
xmlns="">

John Doe
(555) 123-4567

Jane Smith
(555) 123-4567

Jack Jones
(555) 123-4567

Sue Smith
(555) 123-4567

border="1">

Name
Telephone Number

xf:repeat-nodeset="Person">

ref="PersonFullName" />

ref="ContactTelephoneID" />

Discussion

The line that does the repeat is the table body tag:

xf:repeat-nodeset="Person">

References

W3C Web Page on Repeating Attributes

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