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Re: [XBL] Abstract

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:54:47 +0000 (UTC)
To: Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai@us.ibm.com>
Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0701090453520.22379@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Jon Ferraiolo wrote:
>
> XForms has two major components, things that have to do with the data 
> model and things that have to do with UI controls. The data model 
> includes a (fairly simple) data dependency engine and a event-driven 
> processing model with a number of different events defined. These things 
> require a dedicated engine. XBL doesn't help with these features.

I don't see why. It seems like you could easily implement those in XBL,
especially the event-driven design, e.g. by binding to the root element.

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