Re: output/label/help/hint/alert unification

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On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 2:14 AM, Philip Fennell <Philip.Fennell@marklogic.com
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> That makes sense.
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> *From: *Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
> *Organization: *CWI, Amsterdam
> *Date: *Monday, 9 April 2018 at 09:18
> *To: *Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
> *Cc: *XForms <public-xformsusers@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Re: output/label/help/hint/alert unification
> *Resent-From: *<public-xformsusers@w3.org>
> *Resent-Date: *Monday, 9 April 2018 at 09:17
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> Following on from this, I see that "8.1 Common attribute and content sets"
> lists Control Common, appearance, inputmode, incremental, UI Common,
> xml:lang, class, navindex and accesskey.
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> https://www.w3.org/community/xformsusers/wiki/XForms_2.0#
> Common_attribute_and_content_sets
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> Of these, all are mentioned on the elements where they are used, with the
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>     class, xml:lang, navindex, and accesskey.
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> I propose to move class and xml:lang into Common, and navindex and
> accesskey into Control Common, so that it becomes obvious where they are
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> Steven
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> On Sat, 07 Apr 2018 01:27:04 +0200, Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
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> LGTM.
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> I don't remember ever needing or even desiring the `src` attribute on any
> of those. I would favor dropping that.
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> -Erik
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> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:49 AM, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
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> Summary of the attributes on the 5 elements
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> All 5 carry
>         Common (=id, model, context, foreign attributes including event
> attributes)
>         appearance
>         Binding (=ref, bind)
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> The other elements carry these extra attributes:
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> output
>         UI Common (=label/hint/help/alert)
>         value
>         mediatype
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> label
>         value
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> help
>         Linking (optional host-language attributes, e.g. HTML @src)
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> hint/alert
>         [none]
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> So my idea for unification is:
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> On all
>         Common (=id, model, context, Foreign)
>         appearance
>         Binding (=ref, bind)
>         value
>         mediatype
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> On output only:
>         UI Common (=label/hint/help/alert)
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> And that leaves us with Linking, which I am not sure what to do with, and
> maybe is worth dropping.
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> Comments?
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> Steven
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> On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:18:13 +0200, Steven Pemberton <
> steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
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> These 5 elements are very similar, but not exactly the same.
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> For instance, output and label both have @mediatype, but the others not
> (for instance text/html as a mediatype if allowed would also be handy for
> <help>).
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> My feeling is that all 5 elements are essentially the same, just used in
> different ways/contexts.
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> So, should we just unify them?
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> Steven
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