- From: John Boyer <xforms-issues@mn.aptest.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:05:55 -0500
- To: Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl
- CC: www-forms-editor@w3.org
Hi Steven,
As you know from the face to face meeting, the working group accepted a modified
form of this comment.
To simplify authoring of the mediatype child of output, a value attribute has
been added. This helps address the mismatch you felt was problematic between
using mediatype/@ref in upload vs. in output.
However, the ref attribute was retained as an alternative because when upload
and output are being used together, they both will have a mediatype element with
a ref that indicates the same node.
The results of the change are now available in the editor's draft available from
the working group web site.
Best regards,
John Boyer
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/#ui-commonelems-mediatype
>
> We now have
>
> <output ref="piccy" mediatype="image/png">
>
> and
>
> <output ref="piccy"><mediatype ref="../type"/></output>
>
> It would be better if it used @value instead of @ref, since then you
> could write:
>
> <output ref="data"><mediatype value="concat('image/', type)"/></output>
>
> Even better, since the attribute is completely new, is to do away with
> the mediatype element altogether:
>
> <output ref="data" mediatype="../type"/>
>
> (which would require
> <output ref="data" mediatype="'image/png'">
> for the literal case.)
>
> The way that mediatype@ref has two different purposes depending on its
> parent element is nasty.
>
>
>
Received on Friday, 26 October 2007 05:08:37 UTC