XFA Specification
Chapter 15, Template Specification
Template Reference
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The bind element
An element that controls the behavior during merge operations of its enclosing element.
<bind
Properties:
match="once
|
none
|
global
|
dataRef"
ref="cdata"
>
<picture>
[0..1]
</bind>
The bind element is used within the following other elements:
exclGroup field subform
The match property
Controls the role played the by enclosing element in a data-binding (merge) operation.
once
The node representing the enclosing element will bind to a node in the XFA Data DOM in
accordance with the standard matching rules.
none
The node representing the enclosing element is transient. It will not be bound to any node in the
XFA Data DOM.
global
The containing field is global. If the normal matching rules fail to provide a match for it, the
data-binding process will look outside the current record for data to bind to the field.
dataRef
The containing field will bind to the node in the XFA Data DOM specified by the accompanying
See
Basic Data Binding to Produce the XFA Form DOM
definition of, the effects of this property.
The picture property
A
rendering
element that describes input parsing and output formatting information.
For more information see "The
The ref property
An
XFA SOM expression
defining the node in the XFA Data DOM to which the enclosing container will
bind. This is used only when the
match
dataRef
.
See the
XFA-Scripting Object Model Expression Specification
[XFA-SOM] for more information about XFA
SOM expressions.