how to create an attribute

[Former Community Member]

Hi,

I can create xml elements in designer, e.g. John Brinkman's example

  // Add a question datagroup with the right question type

  // then add a question subform to bind against it.

                                                  var vNewQ = xfa.datasets.createNode("dataGroup", "Question");

                                                  vNewType = xfa.datasets.createNode("dataValue", "QuestionType");

                                                  vNewType.value = vQDef.QuestionType.value;

                                                  vNewQ.nodes.append(vNewType);

                                                  vSection.dataNode.nodes.append(vNewQ);

However, I would like to create an attribute (I'm working with an existing predefined schema) but I can't seem to find a simple way, e.g.

I would like something like

<Question QuestionType=""/>

How can I do this? I tried loading the XML in like

                                                  var vNewType          =

                                                                                                      <Question QuestionType="">

                                                                                                      </Question>;

                                                  xfa.data.mForm.loadXML(vNewType.toString(), false, false);

but unless I give it a child node, it bombs out. It will work with

  var vNewType =

    <Question QuestionType="">

       <dummyRow/>

    </Question>;

Any help would be worth 5 gold medals.

[_Bruce_Robertson]

Hi,

You need to set the contains property of the dataValue to 'metaData" to turn it into an attribute, but you can only do this once the dataValue has a parent, so your code should look like;

var vNewQ = xfa.datasets.createNode("dataGroup", "Question");

vNewType = xfa.datasets.createNode("dataValue", "QuestionType");

vNewType.value = vQDef.QuestionType.value;

vNewQ.nodes.append(vNewType);

vNewType.contains = "metaData";

vSection.dataNode.nodes.append(vNewQ);

Regards

Bruce

[Former Community Member]

gold medal winner. I would have never guessed. thank you