- From: Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. <Leigh.Klotz@Xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:22:07 -0700
- To: www-forms@w3.org
XForms 1.2 discussions continue apace, and the Forms Working Group has resolved [1] that in XForms 1.2, all elements which currently use the "nodeset" attribute will accept the "ref" attribute instead. XForms 1.2 will deprecate the nodeset attribute, but will still allow it where XForms 1.1 allows it. If present, the ref attribute will take precedence. We believe this change will simplify authoring, and comes at little or no cost to implementors. It will be up to the element itself to decide whether to use the first node or the entire nodeset. (Note that in practice this is already the case because the bind attribute gives no indication of how it is to be used, and form controls and actions must already interpret it.) Some XForms 1.1 processors have supported this behavior for quite some time. For XForms 1.1 authors today, using nodeset and ref strictly according to the XForms 1.1 Recommendation is the most portable, but it is not the goal of a W3C Recommendation to inhibit progress or discourage experimentation. Therefore, the XForms Working Group encourages [2] XForms 1.1 processor implementors to begin immediately accepting @ref wherever @nodeset is currently allowed. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2010Mar/att-0046/2010-03-31.html#resolution1 [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2010Mar/att-0046/2010-03-31.html#resolution2 Leigh.
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