- From: John Boyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:16:08 -0700
- To: Forms WG (new) <public-forms@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <OF59C2C2EC.D99235CA-ON8825740A.00166E04-8825740A.001774F5@ca.ibm.com>
A while ago I posted simplified syntax for the purchase order example (except insert/delete triggers for now) and then the post showed what the corresponding canonical XForms would look like. Then we had a great discussion on the list about various aspects of the "dollar" proposal, which seeks to do the same things only by using XPath variables based on "implied" binds for named form controls. It definitely seems like both will work. In fact, the biggest oddness may be that many forms will work *whether or not * you use the dollar symbols. I rather hope that only one method or the other will work, but that will depend on exactly what canonical XForm is implied for the simplified syntax under the dollar (variable) proposal. I like the non-dollar proposal because there are no confusing dollars to type, but I like the way that the dollar proposal uses the context-based binding ID referencing mechanism to figure out which inner bind we might be talking about. But I'd also like to be sure that this claim is actually true in light of some actual markup. So, for the two reasons above, could someone (prior to the telecon) please post the dollar proposal solution to the purchase order example given in my prior email here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2008Mar/0013.html Thanks, John M. Boyer, Ph.D. Senior Technical Staff Member 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 Blog RSS feed: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/rss/JohnBoyer?flavor=rssdw
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