XForms 2.0 Draft review: AVTs and deprecated child elements

Dear Group,

now that we have AVTs the corresponding child element mark-up is
deprecated in many places. Currently, we have the prose "...
(deprecated in favor of using an AVT in the XXX attribute) ..." in
following places:

- http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_resource_Element
- http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_method_Element
- http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_mediatype_Element_.28for_output.29
- http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_mediatype_Element_.28for_upload.29
*
- http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_case_Element_Child_of_the_toggle_Element
- http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_control_Element_Child_of_the_setfocus_Element
- http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_name_Child_Element
- http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_targetid_Child_Element
- http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_delay_Child_Element

I think it would be better to make this fact more apparent to the
reader by inserting a leading paragraph (like in
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_resource_Element_child_of_load).
I'm not that familiar with specxml, but maybe there is even some
mark-up to highlight deprecation visually. Furthermore, the
deprecation is mentioned in the heading of the p3ptype property
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_2.0#The_p3ptype_Property_.28deprecated.29
while it isn't for any other element.

Regards,
Uli.

* Deprecating the mediatype element of upload in favor of @mediatype
is plain wrong. I'll send another mail on this topic.
-- 
Ulrich Nicolas Lissé

Received on Wednesday, 30 January 2013 10:53:52 UTC