Re: Specifying the <submission> element

Doh! you're right, I was thinking of the "ref" attribute in a form control
(which can be used instead of a "bind" in the model? as in :

"3.2.3 Single-Node Binding Attributes
The following attributes define a binding between a form control or an
action and an instance data node defined by an XPath expression.

ref
Binding expression interpreted as XPath. This attribute has no meaning when
a bind attribute is present."


RR

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roman Huditsch" <roman.huditsch@hico.com>
To: "Rob Bull" <rob.bull@blackdog.co.uk>; "Bob Smith"
<gordongano99@yahoo.com>; <www-forms@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:48 PM
Subject: AW: Specifying the <submission> element



As I've understood the spec that the "ref" attribute selects a subtree of a
specified instance for submission as Bob mentioned. Otherwise I could not
figure out any situation where it would make sense to use the "ref"
attribute to update the instance on submit. How would you be able to provide
a value for this update when the submission takes part?

wbr,
Roman

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Rob Bull [mailto:rob.bull@blackdog.co.uk]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2003 10:31
An: Bob Smith; www-forms@w3.org
Betreff: Re: Specifying the <submission> element



I gather that the (verified) model is what is submitted, the ref merely uses
the xPath syntax to update/verify the instance data, ie the node values of
the model.

ie if you set your referenced node a/b/c to "widget", a is the top level
node and the xml that the processor would want to verify and submit would be
<a>
    <b>
        <c>widget</c>
    </b>
</a>

If this is not the case, I have seriously missed the point and would like to
know!

RR

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Smith" <gordongano99@yahoo.com>
To: <www-forms@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 7:42 PM
Subject: Specifying the <submission> element


|
| (1) The "ref" attribute lets you specify a subtree of
| the instance data, but it doesn't say exactly how it's
| submitted. E.g. if my ref value is "/a/b/c", then will
| "c" be the top level node or will "a"?
|
| (2) Maybe I've missed it, but how do you specify which
| instance data to submit? Do you have to put an
| instance() function call in the ref attribute? It
| would be nice if this were clearer in the spec.
|
|
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Received on Thursday, 9 January 2003 10:26:45 UTC