- From: Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:38:09 -0700
- To: "public-xformsusers@w3.org" <public-xformsusers@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAAc0PEVKYux=+bVQZJyaQG5iN9pq-AJVuK-pcieGn-xmKVn-Ew@mail.gmail.com>
All,
This attribute takes a boolean value. It is both:
- confusing because it's hard to know which boolean value means to keep
non-relevant nodes or to prune them,
- and limited because there is more you could do with non-relevant nodes,
including blanking them.
So I suggest moving from a boolean to using tokens:
- `keep`: keep all non-relevant nodes
- `blank`: keep non-relevant nodes but blank the value of non-relevant
attributes and non-relevant leaf elements
- `prune`: prune all non-relevant nodes
(A case could be made to allow for the `relevant` MIP to optionally blank
nodes during `recalculate` as well. But that could be considered
separately.)
We could deprecate `false` and `true` on `relevant` and add the 3 tokens
above to that attribute. The issue with this is that:
relevant="prune"
might give the impression that this will prune relevant nodes (which
doesn't make much sense).
We could also introduce a new attribute, for example `nonrelevant`, which
would take precedence over a deprecated `relevant` attribute:
nonrelevant="blank"
Thoughts welcome.
-Erik
Received on Friday, 24 March 2017 21:39:03 UTC