XForms/Repeat into table

Motivation Developers frequently desire to display XML data in tabular structures. Unfortunately the HTML <table> 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 <table> element. So instead of using a <xf:repeat> 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. thumbnail Screen Image frame|center|Screen image was made using FormFaces Sample Program <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"> <head> <title>Repeat Into Table Using xf:repeat-nodeset</title> <!-- remove this line for non-formfaces implementations --> <script type="text/javascript" src="formfaces.js"></script> <xf:model> <xf:instance xmlns=""> <Data xmlns=""> <Person> <PersonFullName>John Doe</PersonFullName> <ContactTelephoneID>(555) 123-4567</ContactTelephoneID> </Person> <Person> <PersonFullName>Jane Smith</PersonFullName> <ContactTelephoneID>(555) 123-4567</ContactTelephoneID> </Person> <Person> <PersonFullName>Jack Jones</PersonFullName> <ContactTelephoneID>(555) 123-4567</ContactTelephoneID> </Person> <Person> <PersonFullName>Sue Smith</PersonFullName> <ContactTelephoneID>(555) 123-4567</ContactTelephoneID> </Person> </Data> </xf:instance> </xf:model> </head> <body> <table border="1"> <tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Telephone Number</th> </tr> <tbody xf:repeat-nodeset="Person"> <tr> <td> <xf:output ref="PersonFullName" /> </td> <td> <xf:output ref="ContactTelephoneID" /> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </body> </html> Discussion The line that does the repeat is the table body tag: <tbody xf:repeat-nodeset="Person"> References W3C Web Page on Repeating Attributes Repeat filter Entity Selection