Re: Architectural Consistency Requirements for Forms

Please re-read what I said carefully --- explicitly separated out
the requirement from how XForms does it today.



Maciej Stachowiak writes:
 > 
 > On May 3, 2007, at 10:49 AM, T.V Raman wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > > Here's one more that is not called out explicitly in 1..8:
 > >
 > > 9)  Given N controls that  are inter-dependent, enable "O(N)
 > >     wiring" rather than requiring "O(N^2) wiring".
 > 
 > This seems like a fine requirement with a practical effect.
 > 
 > > In the XForms world, this is met by having a data model to which
 > >     controls are wired. In the interest of consistency, and for
 > >     enabling the smooth on-ramp from HTML Forms that Mark Birbeck
 > >     has elucidated earlier, we should ensure that an author who
 > >     starts off writing a plain old HTML Form (i.e. no explicit
 > >     data model) can later add in a data model and additional
 > >     wiring without having to re-author the entire form.
 > 
 > I think this part, though, is more questionable. Having an explicit  
 > separate data model is one possible way of solving the problem, but  
 > surely not the only way. Adding this constraint on allowable  
 > solutions may overconstrain the problem, if we also want graceful  
 > degradation in HTML4 UAs.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Maciej

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