- From: Dan Dennedy <DDennedy@digitalbang.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:37:58 -0400
- To: <werner.donne@re.be>, <www-forms@w3.org>
Correct, however, the spec does not define a mechanism for a form control's <alert> to know exactly what constraint failed and why. Using <alert>, the author can make a rather generic message similar to what Amir saw in X-Smiles. Also, the author could briefly (elegantly?) state what all of the facets and constraints are in the message. My processor's default alert event handler generates a message action that contains a meaningful error message--at least to me ;-) However, the author has no control over that message except to completely override it with an <alert> message, which is typically less meaningful. Maybe a future xforms spec can include error data in the alert event's context info such that an author can insert something into a custom message using <output>. > From: Werner Donné > > Dear Amir, > > The form controls can have an "alert" element, which can > contain the error information that is presented to the user > in some way whenever the validation of the portion of the > instance data the control is bound to fails. > > Regards, > > Werner.
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