Empty SubForms submitting empty fields/records

Question

I have a document containing three pages.  The first page contains two checkboxes that will display the hidden subforms I have in document, if needed.  If the user does not need to access the subforms, check boxes are set to off and the subforms will not display.
How do I prevent from the empty subforms from export to data.xml file when submitting file via email submit.
I would like to know how to script or change a setting that will prevent the empty subforms from submitting when document is submitted.

Answer 1

I am not a programmer but will try and figure this out... in your code does it look for empty tags or is there additional coding required to first look for empty tags and then remove the empty tags with the code you provided as an example.
>>> Srini Dhulipalla <[email protected]> 4/22/2010 12:43 PM >>>
Incase if you want to delete the tags conditionally you need to write code before Submit/ export the data..
You need to use xfa.datasets.data.nodes collection which is nothing but the XML that is generated from the form. You need to loop thru the collection and identify which tag is not needed in the XML and remove it.
For Example:
     var nodeRemove = xfa.datasets.data.nodes.item(0).nodes.item(1);     xfa.datasets.data.nodes.item(0).nodes.remove(nodeRemove); //Where nodeRemove is the node that you do not want to appear in the data XML.
Another Example to loop thru the nodes in Data..
//Remove the userImageURL tag from the Output XML
for(i=0;i<xfa.datasets.data.nodes.item(0).nodes.item(0).nodes.length;i++){
     var strTagName = xfa.datasets.data.nodes.item(0).nodes.item(0).nodes.item(i).name;
     if(strTagName == "userImageURL"){
          nodeRemove = xfa.datasets.data.nodes.item(0).nodes.item(0).nodes.item(i);
          xfa.datasets.data.nodes.item(0).nodes.item(0).nodes.remove(nodeRemove); 
Hope this gives an idea..
Thanks
Srini