- From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:29:24 -0700
- To: "Forms WG (new)" <public-forms@w3.org>
John, I had attached a partial version to my original message: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2008Mar/0014.html Namely: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2008Mar/att-0014/po3.xhtml Do you need more? -Erik On Mar 11, 2008, at 9:16 PM, John Boyer wrote: > > A while ago I posted simplified syntax for the purchase order > example (except insert/delete triggers for now) > > and then the post showed what the corresponding canonical XForms > would look like. > > Then we had a great discussion on the list about various aspects of > the "dollar" proposal, which seeks to do the same things only by > using XPath variables based on "implied" binds for named form > controls. > > It definitely seems like both will work. In fact, the biggest > oddness may be that many forms will work *whether or not * you use > the dollar symbols. I rather hope that only one method or the other > will work, but that will depend on exactly what canonical XForm is > implied for the simplified syntax under the dollar (variable) > proposal. > > I like the non-dollar proposal because there are no confusing > dollars to type, but I like the way that the dollar proposal uses > the context-based binding ID referencing mechanism to figure out > which inner bind we might be talking about. But I'd also like to be > sure that this claim is actually true in light of some actual markup. > > So, for the two reasons above, could someone (prior to the telecon) > please post the dollar proposal solution to the purchase order > example given in my prior email here: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2008Mar/0013.html > > Thanks, > John M. Boyer, Ph.D. > Senior Technical Staff Member > Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher > Chair, W3C Forms Working Group > Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software > IBM Victoria Software Lab > E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com > > Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer > Blog RSS feed: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/rss/JohnBoyer?flavor=rssdw > -- Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way http://www.orbeon.com/
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