Re: XForms document versioning

Funnily enough, a similar discussion is going on in the TAG. See for  
instance
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2007Apr/0031.html

Steven

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:02:12 +0200, Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>  
wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to suggest that we have a version attribute that can be used
> on any element in a host language. This would therefore be a global
> attribute in the XForms namespace, and might be used as follows:
>
>   <html xf:version="1.1">
>     ...
>   </html>
>
> My feeling is that this attribute is less about enforcing behaviour of
> processors, and more about providing a clear indication to authors
> which type of document they are dealing with.
>
> For example, if a form contains a submission that uses the new
> xf:resource attribute or element, it may not be immediately obvious to
> a new author as they start to learn XForms, that this is not supported
> in all processors. Rather than having a flurry of emails on one or
> other list saying that some example doesn't work, I think we should
> encourage authors to indicate what standard is being used by a form.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>

Received on Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:15:42 UTC