- From: T. V. Raman <tvraman@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:21:05 -0800
- To: Jérôme Nègre <jerome.negre@e-xmlmedia.fr>
- Cc: <werner.donne@re.be>, <www-forms@w3.org>
We kept element "instance" optional
for the "lazy HTML author" who does not define a data model
or instance.
For using all of the XForms functionality --you will need
the instance document.
>>>>> "Jérôme" == Jérôme Nègre <jerome.negre@e-xmlmedia.fr> writes:
>> According to the schema for XForms it is not
>> necessary to have an instance
Jérôme> element in the
>> model. How can the form then be bootstrapped? The
>> instance data would be
Jérôme> empty after
>> initialisation and the only action I have found that
>> can create new
Jérôme> elements is insert. That
>> action, however, needs elements in the instance
>> element to copy to the
Jérôme> instance data.
Jérôme> In such a case, the instance data is created on
Jérôme> xforms:formControlInitialize (chapter 11.2.5).
Jérôme> Regards, Jérôme
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Best Regards,
--raman
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