- From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:51:39 +0200
- To: "Forms WG (new)" <public-forms@w3.org>
- CC: www-forms-editor@w3.org
Then that's great and I hope there is an action item out there to track this. -Erik Mark Birbeck wrote: > Hi Erik, > > When this was discussed we definitely agreed that it should be a case > of 'set the flags'. > > Regards, > > Mark > > On 23/07/07, Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com> wrote: >> >> All, >> >> This issue may have been raised before, but I just hit it again when >> implementing some optimizations in our implementation, and I would >> like to make sure that it is discussed if not already done. You never >> know, John has so many action items ;-) >> >> Section "11.2 The xforms-submit Event", upon instance replacement, >> directly performs rebuild, recalculate, revalidate and refresh >> operations. My question is simple: why do we do this directly, rather >> than setting the flags? >> >> This in particular is inconsistent with the way xforms:insert >> works. See section "9.3.5 The insert Action", point 9, where the flags >> are set: >> >> "The XForms action system's deferred update flags for rebuild, >> recalculate, revalidate and refresh are set." >> >> An instance replacement is not different from an insert action, in >> that an entire instance or part of it may be replaced. The two should >> work consistently. >> >> If we want to be consistent, which option to choose? I do not see a >> particular reason why a submission with instance replacement would >> work differently from any other action in XForms, so I do think that >> the consistency would work in favor of modifying the behavior of >> submission to set the deferred update flags. >> >> That is, unless there is a very good reason to perform these actions >> directly, but at this point I don't see any, and I suspect that this >> is just a legacy from XForms 1.0 prior to the more refined work on >> deferred updates done in 1.1. >> >> -Erik >> >> -- >> Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way >> http://www.orbeon.com/ >> >> > > -- Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way http://www.orbeon.com/
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