Re: The action items for issues 72 and 73

John Boyer wrote:

> In today's meeting it was expressed that retaining the ref attribute on 
> output's mediatype for the sake of consistency with the expression of an 
> upload that might feed content to the output was "not enough" 
> justification.  Respectfully, I don't agree; we have had no small number 
> of wraps on the knuckles for just such inconsistencies of expression, 
> this point was made and resolved already at the face to face meeting, 
> and no net new technical information exists to warrant reopening the 
> issue.  It is clearly implementable, and consistency of expression has 
> clearly been an issue for XForms in the past that we have done much work 
> to improve.

I know we have a process, and if an issue was discussed at the f2f had a 
resolution, then great. I couldn't be at the f2f, and that was not 
because I didn't want to be there.

This is why I still kindly ask WG members to look at the email I just 
sent on this topic:

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2007Jun/0089.html

I argue in that email that adding @ref is in fact adding to 
inconsistency. Yes it is, in a way, adding consistency with 
xforms:upload, but in my mind this is misplaced consistency. Consistency 
of the function of the attribute is in my opinion more important.

-Erik

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Received on Wednesday, 27 June 2007 19:47:48 UTC