XFA Specification
Chapter 16, Config Specification
Config Element Reference
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The startNode element
This option controls the subtree of the input document which is processed by the XFA application.
<startNode
Properties:
desc="cdata"
>
...pcdata...
</startNode>
The startNode element is used within the following other elements:
data
When the
startNode
element is absent or empty the entire XML data document is processed. When it is
non-empty it supplies an expression which identifies the root of the subtree that is processed, and the XFA
application does not process any data outside the subtree.
This option affects processing during every phase.
For more information about this element, see
Extended Mapping Rules.
Content
The form of the expression is "xfasom(somExpr)" where
somExpr
is a restricted XFA-SOM expression.
The general syntax of SOM expressions is defined in the
XFA Scripting Object Model 2.0 Specification
Scripting Object Model.
The expression in the
startNode
element is restricted to a fully-qualified path of
element types (tag names) starting with the root of the XML-data-document and referring to a single
element. The
Extended Mapping Rulesgives
an example of
startNode
usage.
The desc property
An attribute to hold human-readable metadata.