- From: T. V. Raman <tvraman@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:05:50 -0700
- To: "Martin Nussbaumer" <martin@nussbaumers.de>
- Cc: "xforms" <www-forms@w3.org>
actually that label goes in sub-element caption of
element choices --
<choices>
<caption>group 1</caption>
<item/>
<item/>
</choices>
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Nussbaumer <martin@nussbaumers.de> writes:
Martin> Hi, you wrote in the Draft from 8/6/01, chapter
Martin> 7.13.2.6 choices: "This element is used within
Martin> list form controls to group items. This provides
Martin> the same functionality as element optgroup in
Martin> HTML 4.0. "
Martin> I think there should be a attribute "label" for
Martin> each <choices> for rendering like follows:
Martin> XForms: <choices label="A"> <item/> <item/>
Martin> </choices> <choices label="B"> <item/> <choices
Martin> label="C"> <item/> </choices> </choices>
Martin> rendered: optgroup A->item1
-> item2
Martin> optgroup B->item1
-> optGroupC->item1
Martin> ......
Martin> Greetings, Martin Nussbaumer
Martin> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
Martin> Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META
Martin> content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
Martin> http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML
Martin> 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE>
Martin> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT
Martin> face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
Martin> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2>you wrote in the Draft from 8/6/01,
Martin> chapter 7.13.2.6 choices:<BR>"This element is
Martin> used within list form controls to group
Martin> items. This provides the same functionality as
Martin> element <CODE>optgroup</CODE> in HTML
Martin> 4.0. "</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV>
Martin> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I
Martin> think there should be a attribute "label" for
Martin> each <choices> for rendering like
Martin> follows:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2>XForms:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
Martin> face=Arial size=2><choices
Martin> label="A"></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2>
Martin> <item/></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2>
Martin> <item/></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2></choices></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
Martin> face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2><choices label="B"></FONT></DIV>
Martin> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
Martin> <item/></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2> <choices
Martin> label="C"></FONT></DIV>
Martin> <DIV>
Martin> <item/></DIV> <DIV>
Martin> </choices></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2></choices></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
Martin> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2>rendered:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
Martin> face=Arial size=2>optgroup
Martin> A->item1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2>
Martin>
Martin> ->item2</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2>optgroup B->item1</FONT></DIV>
Martin> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
Martin>
Martin>
Martin> ->optGroupC->item1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
Martin> face=Arial size=2>
Martin>
Martin> ......</FONT></DIV>
Martin> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
Martin> size=2>Greetings,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
Martin> face=Arial size=2>Martin Nussbaumer</FONT></DIV>
Martin> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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Best Regards,
--raman
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