- From: Ulrich Nicolas Lissé <unlisse@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:09:07 +0100
- To: Forms WG <public-forms@w3.org>
Dear Group, http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_mediatype_Element_.28for_upload.29 states that this element is "deprecated in favor of using an AVT in the mediatype attribute". This cannot work, since the mediatype element for upload is no surrogate for the mediatype attribute. The issue here is that we have to deal with two different mediatype aspects of upload: The mediatype attribute is used to constrain upload sources presented to the user. In contrast, the mediatype child element is used to store the actual mediatype of the uploaded resource. Unfortunately, both the attribute and the element have been given the same name. This must change in order to take advantage of AVTs for the mediatype element. I'd like to suggest to introduce a new "accept" attribute, which takes on the role of the old mediatype attribute. The mediatype attribute can be used as an AVT-enabled child element surrogate then. However, this would create a sneaky backwards incompatibility. So we should leave the mediatype attribute as is and introduce a new AVT-enabled attribute for the deprecated mediatype element, if we come up with an appropriate name. Regards, Uli. -- Ulrich Nicolas Lissé
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