topic No XML tags instead of attribute xsi:nil='true' in Alfresco Archive

No XML tags instead of attribute xsi:nil='true'

trgerhardt — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:42:22 GMT

How do you code an XSD so that the tags just don't show up if there is no content instead of having xsi:nil="true"?XSD File:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xs:include schemaLocation="/includ

Re: No XML tags instead of attribute xsi:nil='true'

arielb — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:16:58 GMT

for optional tags (minOccurs="0") i need to use xsi:nil in order to preserve the document structure. there is no alternative at the moment - the nil tags are needed in order to keep the xforms processor happy. if this is important to you, please file an issue at issues.alfresco.com and i'll look into resolving this for a future release.

Re: No XML tags instead of attribute xsi:nil='true'

trgerhardt — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:06:55 GMT

Ok Then how do you test for the xsi:nil attribute? Everything I've tried has resulted in errors.

<xsl:if test="@xsi:nil='false'>

Results in an error, what would be the proper way to do this?

Re: No XML tags instead of attribute xsi:nil='true'

arielb — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:33:37 GMT

not sure why you'd get an error - do you have the xsi namespace imported in your xsl?