Re: [Moderator Action] What does "same form" mean?

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Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 12:21 PM
Subject: [Moderator Action] What does "same form" mean?


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> In the Mission Statement of the Charter for the XForms WG the sentence
> appears,
> "The key idea is to separate the user interface and presentation from the
> data model and logic, allowing the same form to be used on a wide variety
of
> devices such as voice browsers, handhelds, desktops and even paper."
>
> In addition, in 1.1 of the XForms Requirements WD the following sentence
> appears,
> "The same form will be accessible on a full screen display, as a sheet of
> paper or using a handheld computer resting on your palm."
>
> But what does "same form" actually mean?
>
> The closer I look at the term the more it seems to muddle the separation
of
> model and presentation/UI which XForms is supposed to provide.
>
> I guess that a casual reading of that "key" idea led me (and others?) to
> believe I could use one XForms model and then XInclude it (or something
> similar). The (seeming) need to make multiple copies of a model and paste
> them into platform-specific documents is obviously not ideal from a
> maintenance point of view.
>
> I would really like to see a mechanism that specifies how the "same
form" -
> by which I mean the same XForms model - can be re-used without copying and
> pasting into separate platform-specific or host-language-specific
documents.
>
> Andrew Watt

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