Re: 1.1 spec correction for unspecified submission method

Hi Erik,

Another more compelling possibility is to simply say that "get" is the 
default method.  This is simpler editorially, does not introduce a further 
error-type, and aligns with the default currently used on the web.  Does 
that sound good?

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John M. Boyer, Ph.D.
STSM, Interactive Documents and Web 2.0 Applications
Chair, W3C Forms Working Group
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
IBM Victoria Software Lab
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From:
Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
To:
Forms WG <public-forms@w3.org>
Date:
02/18/2009 04:17 PM
Subject:
Re: 1.1 spec correction for unspecified submission method



That sounds reasonable except that it is a little annoying to have to 
add a new "method-error" error type, since this type does not exist yet.

-Erik

On Feb 18, 2009, at 1:54 PM, John Boyer wrote:

>
> At some time since CR, it was noticed that we did not say what a 
> submission would do if the resource URI was not specified, and we 
> have corrected the 1.1 spec to say that you get an xforms-submit- 
> error with error-type of resource-error
>
> I was doing a code review on Ubiquity XForms implementation of the 
> method element, and noticed that the 1.1 spec has the same problem 
> for the method.  The spec says that one of the method attribute or 
> method element must be specified, but it does not say what happens 
> if the author violates the requirement.  It looks like a simple 
> omission error, i.e. clearly you should ge tan xforms-submit-error 
> with an error-type of method-error.
>
> John M. Boyer, Ph.D.
> STSM, Interactive Documents and Web 2.0 Applications
> 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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