Re: 14.13 The dispatch Element

On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:26:07 +0200, Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>  
wrote:

> Maybe because we had the (now deprecated) nested elements to dynamically  
> set those values?

Oh of course, that would be the reason.

>
> It seems to me that we do want to require `name` and `targetid`.

Agreed.

Steven

>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:44 AM Steven Pemberton  
> <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
>> And @targetid is optional too.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> (Apart from me wanting the default to be the current or parent element,  
>> but that's a different issue
>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xformsusers/2017May/0009)
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:39:53 +0200, Steven Pemberton  
>> <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.w3.org/community/xformsusers/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_dispatch_Element
>>>
>>> Special Attributes:
>>>   name
>>>   Optional string giving the name of the event to dispatch.
>>>
>>> Why is this optional?
>>>
>>> Is there any case where it is not needed? What happens if it is not  
>>> supplied?
>>>
>>> Steven