Re: url params et al

Erik,

thanks for your answer, but I still don't see any evidence. Given that

	<myexpr>first-name</myexpr>

both

	ref="{/myexpr}"

and

	ref="*[name()=/myexpr]"

will evaluate to the same like

	ref="first-name"

or

	ref="*[name()='first-name']"

Regards,
Uli.

Erik Bruchez wrote:
> 
> Ulrich,
> 
>> while I go with most of what you say, I don't see any use case for 
>> AVTs within @ref, @nodeset or MIP attributes. These are XPath 
>> expressions by nature, so anything expressible with AVTs is 
>> expressible without them, e.g. ref="{/myexpr}" can be written as 
>> ref="*[name()=/myexpr]".
>>
>> Is it just to late for me and I'm missing sth obvious ?
> 
> Your example above is incorrect. What this does:
> 
>   ref="{/myexpr}"
> 
> is tell the @ref attribute that its actual value must be evaluated by 
> first executing the content of the brackets as an XPath expression. The 
> result of that expression is then used itself as an XPath binding 
> expression (because that's the semantic of @ref). Say you have:
> 
>   <myexpr>first-name</myexpr>
> 
> This turns @ref into:
> 
>   ref="first-name"
> 
> If on the other hand I have:
> 
>   <myexpr>instance('my-instance')/last-name</myexpr>
> 
> Then @ref turns into:
> 
>   ref="instance('my-instance')/last-name"
> 
> And you can of course have more complex uses of AVTs, like:
> 
>   ref="instance('{instance('dynamic')/instance-name}')/{other-stuff}"
> 
> The point is that with AVTs, what you are actually doing is telling the 
> XForms processor to evaluate XPath expressions that have been built at 
> runtime after the XForms engine initialization. So you need the 
> capability to execute such expressions. Standard XForms can't do it at 
> all. Standard XSLT can't do it except with AVTs, or with the evaluate() 
> extension function that every XSLT processor provides.
> 
> As far as I know you can't write an equivalent XPath expression as you 
> suggest: you either need AVTs or an evaluate() function.
> 
> This said my feeling is that are not many use cases for AVTs in @ref, 
> and I personally wouldn't push too much for this at the moment.
> 
> -Erik
> 


-- 
Ulrich Nicolas Lissé

Received on Monday, 28 August 2006 19:35:19 UTC