- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:07:04 +0900
- To: John Boyer <xforms-issues@mn.aptest.com>
- CC: www-forms-editor@w3.org
Hi John, Sorry if I made myself not clear: I was asking for a reference to an XQuery specification, not for changing the namespace of the XForms definitions. I'm especially convinced to not use the XML Schema namespace by your third reason: the empty strings allowed by the XForms versions. Nevertheless, I still think a non-normative reference to XQuery with the explanation about the differences (like you provided below) would be helpful. Felix John Boyer wrote: > Hi Felix, > > The working group considered this issue and decide to leave the datatype > definitions in the XForms namespace for three reasons. First, XForms is based > on XML Schema 1.0, so new types will be added to a future version of XForms when > an updated version of XML schema is adopted. Second, datatypes in the XForms > namespace are more convenient for form authors because they do not have to be > namespace qualified in 'type' MIPs. Third, the XForms versions actually are > differeent because they also permit empty strings, which is also more convenient > for form authoring. > > Generally, the latter two reasons are particularly important as they explain why > all the xsd simple types have corresponding xforms datatypes. XML schema has > the mindset of validating a "full" schema instance, i.e. data that is about to > be processed by a server-side business process. This is a bit of a > technological mismatch for forms, which describe the process for getting from > "empty" schema instance to "full" schema instance. > > I hope you find this rationale satisfactory. > > Best regards, > John Boyer > > >> Comment from the i18n review of: >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xforms11-20070222/ >> >> Comment 2 >> At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0704-xforms11/ >> Editorial/substantive: S >> Location in reviewed document: >> 5.2.3 and 5.2.4 >> Reference to definition of data types missing >> >> Comment: >> >> The data types >> dateTimeDuration >> and >> yearMonthDuration >> are described as XForms data types, but they are data types defined in the >> XQuery Data Model [http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xpath-datamodel-20070123/] >> specification. Please provide a reference to this specification from sec. >> 5.2.3 and 5.2.4. See also the >> related comment from the XML Core WG >> [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms-editor/2007Mar/0007.html] >> , which is basically the same. >> >> >> >> >> >>
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