Re: Serialization "ignoring or treating as empty"

This text appears in a couple of places, and is a result of the new  
@nonrelevant attribute:

nonrelevant
Optional string indicating whether non-relevant values are included in the  
returned data. Values are "keep": all values are returned, "remove":  
non-relevant values are not returned, "empty": non-relevant nodes are  
returned as empty values. The default is "remove".

In fact the text you quote says that:

Each element node is visited in document order, ignoring or treating as  
empty non-relevant elements according to the nonrelevant attribute or the  
deprecated relevant attribute.

Want to suggest text to clarify?

Steven

On Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:25:55 +0100, Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org> wrote:

> In "11.3.2.4 Serialization as application/x-www-form-urlencoded":
>
> XForms 1.1 had:
>
>> Each element node is visited in document order, except non-relevant  
>> elements are skipped
>
> XForms 2.0 has:
>
>> Each element node is visited in document order, ignoring or treating as  
>> empty non-relevant elements
>
> Is "ignoring" or "treating as empty" the same thing as "skipped"? I  
> don't know what "treating as empty" would >mean. We should clarify this.
>
> -Erik