- From: Philipp Wagner <news@philipp-wagner.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:58:52 +0100
- To: www-forms@w3.org
Hi, when trying to fix a bug in Mozilla XForms I came across the following problem: How should whitespace before and after a non-whitespace characters be handled when matching a xf:select1/xf:value to the bound node? Please have a look at the following testcase, which shows what I mean better than many words: https://bug533174.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=495947 I also have some screenshots how Chiba and Orbeon handle this: Orbeon: https://bug533174.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=495949 Chiba: https://bug533174.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=495948 Seems like there's no consensus on this :) What's "the right thing" to do? a) Strip all whitespace before and after non-whitespace characters from xf:value and the bound node when doing the comparison? OR b) Compare the two string literally, including whitespace? I think option a) would be more intuitive for web developers. What's the proposed implementation? Philipp
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