- From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:25:09 -0800
- To: public-forms@w3.org
John, Thanks! I wish I could have been in Boston this week. (I will be there for the XML evening in a month though.) -Erik John Boyer wrote: > > Thanks Erik. I took it the right way. > Thanks also for being very responsive during the face to face time to > reading and considering these final changes we were making to the CR spec. > > Yes agreed that the particular wording does allow insertion of PIs and > comments into the root node. Because the result of an xpath could be > the root node, the choice was to make it an error or make it work. > Since it could work in a manner consistent with everything else, making > an error seemed to be an unnecessary limitation. > > I do like it better now; you were right that it really does make things > simpler, which we need for insert, so I am glad you insisted. > > :-) > John M. Boyer, Ph.D. > STSM: Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher > Chair, W3C Forms Working Group > Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software > IBM Victoria Software Lab > E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com > > Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer > > > > > *Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>* > Sent by: public-forms-request@w3.org > > 11/05/2007 10:45 PM > Please respond to > ebruchez@orbeon.com > > > > To > public-forms@w3.org > cc > > Subject > Re: 15 Insert/Delete Examples updated in Editor's draft > > > > > > > > > > John, > > Wow, you are a real "bourreau de travail" (in a good way ;-). > > I like the more explicit approach used in point 7a of section > 10.3. One question about the following: > > "If the insert location node is the root node of an instance (which > is the parent of the root element), and the cloned node is not an > element, then the target location is before the first child of the > insert location node." > > I assume this is intended to allow inserting PIs and comments as > children of a document node, right? I believe that this case was not > explicitly considered before, but I think it is good to allow this. > > I also like the fact that 10.3.7d and B4 now makes it clearer that we > are not considering attributes as an ordered list, and the rationale > given is very good too. > > So it seems that if I read 10.3 and B4 well, everything is now as I > expected it to be wrt xforms:insert :-) Yay! > > -Erik > > John Boyer wrote: > > > > Hi Erik, > > > > It was needed today, so I completed the task. It is now approaching > > 1am, so I will talk to you in the morning about it if needed. > > > > For the record, we did not re-add the text in a different place. > > We did put aspects of the former text back *because* we lost important > > use cases without them, such as the ability to insert attributes. > > > > Please note that the amended text *must* still be predicated on the type > > of cloned node and/or the type of insert location node. It will be > > obvious once you review the text that this is both unavoidable and quite > > natural. For example, if the context attribute is used to specify the > > parent of the cloned node, one must still decide whether to add the > > cloned node to the attribute list or child list based on whether or not > > the cloned node is an attribute. > > > > Anyway, the result of your request (context for parent container, > > nodeset for sibling) has made insert easier to understand, which was the > > goal. > > We hope to discuss transition to CR in the morning, so please review by > > then. > > > > Thank you, > > John M. Boyer, Ph.D. > > STSM: Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher > > Chair, W3C Forms Working Group > > Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software > > IBM Victoria Software Lab > > E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com > > > > Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer > > > > > > > > > > *Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>* > > Sent by: public-forms-request@w3.org > > > > 11/05/2007 09:54 AM > > Please respond to > > ebruchez@orbeon.com > > > > > > > > To > > public-forms@w3.org > > cc > > "Forms WG (new)" <public-forms@w3.org> > > Subject > > Re: 15 Insert/Delete Examples updated in Editor's draft > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > John, > > > > > Notwithstanding whether the intent of your proposal was misunderstood, > > > the thing you proposed (the removal of certain text) did occur. > > > > My initial comment proposed the removal of that text with a certain > > intent, which was clearly explained (and re-explained in this thread). > > > > If then the content of that removed text is re-added but in a > > different place, then the removal obviously does nothing to achieve > > that intent. > > > > > Can you reformulate what you want to happen based on the latest > copy of > > > the spec? > > > This will be needed for comparison. > > > > I will attempt to do this today. > > > > -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/ > > > -- Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way http://www.orbeon.com/
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