- From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:44:48 -0800
- To: Forms WG <public-forms@w3.org>
John, This has always bothered me. My guess is that this was introduced to remove the need of escaping "&" to "&" in attributes, but I might be wrong. There is nothing that prevents a server from using ";" instead of "&" as the separator for parameters, but the standard today is definitely "&" and there is no coming back. I don't know which applications would use the default value of ";" specified by XForms at the moment. This means that there is probably not a big risk in changing this default. -Erik On Feb 28, 2009, at 10:35 AM, John Boyer wrote: > > The section for form-urlencoded submission [1] indicates that it > uses the separator character specified by the submission element. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/specs/XForms1.1/index-diff.html#serialize-urlencode > > The default for the separator attribute specified at the beginning > of Section 11 [2] is semicolon rather than ampersand. > > [2] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/specs/XForms1.1/index-diff.html#submit-submission-element > > Why is this? > > Either the default should be ampersand, or possibly it was meant to > be used only on a urlencoded-post? > > Or possibly the default was meant to be semi-colon for urlencoded- > post and ampersand otherwise? For method="get" is there ever a > reason to have a separator other than ampersand? > > This default setting appears ever since the attribute was added way > back in 2002 [3], but the attribute appeared in the same working > draft as did the urlencoded-post. > > [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xforms-20020821/ > > 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 > -- Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way http://www.orbeon.com/
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