Re: Repeat with automatic controls

Also...

min / max items required.

Regards,

Mike

On 7 September 2016 at 13:38, Philip Fennell <Philip.Fennell@marklogic.com>
wrote:

> Hello Stephen,
>
> Would it be ‘gilding the lily’ to also considered ‘insert-before-index’,
> ‘insert-after-index’ and ‘delete-at-index’?
>
>
> Regards
>
> Philip
>
> On 07/09/2016 13:00, "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
>
>     One of the remaining issues is what to do (if anything) with the issue
> of
>     automatically supplying insert/delete controls in repeat controls.
>
>     Ideally it would be great if without having to write much extra, you
> got
>     some way or another of deleting and inserting items in the bound list,
>     without preventing you from adding controls yourself when necessary.
>
>     For backwards compatibility, an unadorned <repeat> should behave the
> same
>     as now (at least there should be no visible extra controls. This
> doesn't
>     need to stop an implementation from allowing, for instance, right-click
>     actions).
>
>     For data consistency reasons, there also needs to be a way to say: only
>     insert at the start; only delete at the start; only insert at the end;
>     only delete at the end; no insertions; no deletions.
>
>     Strawman examples:
>       <repeat actions="insert delete" ref="list/oranges">
>        ...
>       </repeat>
>
>       <repeat actions="insert-start delete-end" ref="events/dates">
>        ...
>       </repeat>
>
>     The absence of an action would mean that it would not be
> (automatically)
>     possible, though the form author could still add controls as needed.
>
>     Steven
>
>
>
>


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