- From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:25:50 -0700
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Cc: XForms <public-xformsusers@w3.org>
Received on Thursday, 21 March 2019 21:26:24 UTC
> > I am not against a `<replace>` action, in fact it is a pretty fundamental > operation which I think we should have. > > But I am not sure that would have to mean "keep the element and replace > its content". What if the `with` points to an element with a different name? > > > Well, that is how setvalue works, so I thought it good to keep it > consistent. > One could argue that `<setvalue>` removes the existing text node(s) and adds new ones. > But I might not have understood your suggestion clearly. > > I suggest that a `<replace>` action would in effect have to remove the > existing element and replace it with another, but it would do so as an > indivisible operation from the perspective of the user of the action. > > Sounds feasible. > Yes :) -Erik
Received on Thursday, 21 March 2019 21:26:24 UTC