XFA Specification
Chapter 16, Config Specification
Config Element Reference
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The picture element
This option controls the formatting of updated data.
<picture
Properties:
desc="cdata"
>
...pcdata...
</picture>
The picture element is used within the following other elements:
transform
This option applies only to nodes corresponding to elements with tags that match the value of the
ref
attribute of its enclosing
transform
element.
When the XFA Data DOM is updated, the new data for the node is validated against, and if it matches
formatted in accordance with, the picture clause. This is in addition to any validation or calculation
supplied by other means.
This option takes effect during the data update phase.
For more information about this element see
Extended Mapping Rules.
Content
The content must be a picture clause. The format of the picture clause is defined in
XFA Picture Clause 2.0
Specification
Picture Clause Specification.
The desc property
An attribute to hold human-readable metadata.