- From: John Boyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:46:07 -0700
- To: Forms WG (new) <public-forms@w3.org>
- Cc: ebruchez@orbeon.com
- Message-ID: <OFF870DC99.83210765-ON88257385.002E3E80-88257385.003048E6@ca.ibm.com>
The editor's draft now contains changes for issues 88 to 90 regarding behavioral problems with value and copy [1,2]. [1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/specs/XForms1.1/index-diff.html#ui-selectMany [2] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/specs/XForms1.1/index-diff.html#ui-selectOne For the record, Erik's earlier text was really good and was used as a guide. However, we needed it to be applicable to copy as well as value. Also, when I got back into the spec, I found that the prior text had a good idea of trying to say what would be true about the control separately from when it would be enforced. I also found that the existing text contained some statements that I wanted to retain without diff marks because they were contentious in the past. For these reasons, I had to be more surgical about the application of the ideas to the spec. The separate text indicating when truth would be enforced was indeed missing, so it was added, but it was unnecessary to drop into bullet points because the "general truth" versions of "For closed selections" and "For open selections" already contained material commensurate with the bullet points. I also found it necessary to put diffs into binding restrictions and implementation requirements, mainly to account for copy at the same time as value. Lastly, the comment about disallowing empty and whitespace only values was added, but not as a note so there is no confusion about whether it is normative. I believe that the new text synch's up very nicely with what Erik wanted out of his last call comments (as indicated by his prior version of a text solution), and that it also does provide consistency between value and copy handling, so the diffs are worth your time reviewing. Please comment if you see anything needing improvement in [1,2]. 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
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