Re: "Focus"

That works for me too.

-Erik

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:33:28 +0100, Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
> wrote:
>
> Yes it's XPath 2 terminology: [1]
>
>     "[Definition: The first three components of the dynamic context
> (context item, context position, and context size) are called the focus of
> the expression. ] The focus enables the processor to keep track of which
> items are being processed by the expression."
>
> So we have:
>
> - focus for the purpose of XPath evaluation
> - focus on a UI control
>
> The current HTML spec says this: [2]
>
>     "When interacting with an interface using a keyboard, key input is
> channeled from the system, through the hierarchy of interactive widgets, to
> an active widget, which is said to be focused."
>
> Maybe we could disambiguate by using "keyboard focus", as it is related to
> the keyboard and matters for keyboard input (that's also the approach we
> took in our documentation [3]), and try to not use focus in relation to
> XPath evaluation?
>
>
> I would honestly prefer to do it the other way round, since we use 'focus'
> everywhere for control focus, from setfocus to DOMFocusIn, and so on,
> whilst we hardly ever refer to the XPath focus.
>
> Steven
>
>
> -Erik
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#dt-dynamic-context
> [2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#introduction-7
> [3] https://doc.orbeon.com/xforms/focus.html
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Philip Fennell <
> Philip.Fennell@marklogic.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Steven,
>>
>> I don’t recall ever using or seeing used the term ‘focus’ in an XPath
>> context. Only in the context of UI.
>>
>>
>> Philip
>>
>> On 01/11/2016 14:23, "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
>>
>>     The spec uses the word 'focus' in two different ways:
>>
>>     1. In evaluation contexts:
>>     https://www.w3.org/community/xformsusers/wiki/XForms_2.0#
>> Maintaining_Position:_the_Focus
>>
>>     "The evaluation context consists of at least the focus, the variables
>> in
>>     scope and the available functions."
>>
>>     "The focus consists of the context item, position and size "
>>
>>     2. For the control that interaction is directed to.
>>
>>     Not actually defined anywhere (which I shall fix), but used all over
>> the
>>     place.
>>
>>     E.g. "Changing the focus to a form control within a repeat object may
>>     cause one or more repeat index values to be changed"
>>
>>     This needs to be fixed.
>>
>>     Is there any technical reason that we use "focus" in the first case?
>> (Is
>>     it an XPath technical term that we are required to use?)
>>
>>     Steven
>>
>>
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