Thanks. That might be a workaround, to display a date value in a protected
text-field, but we are just trying to disable the control (date field)
itself.
The specific problem is that when we use a date control in the XDP rendered
as XHTML (ES8.2), if we make it protected the display area appears
(correctly) to be greyed-out but the date-picker is still active - and if a
date is selected it is populated through to the greyed-out display area and
the underling xml.
Is there any other way to disable the date picker part of the date field ?