- From: Mark Birbeck <Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:25:09 +0100
- To: "'Doug Schepers'" <doug@schepers.cc>
- Cc: www-forms@w3.org
Doug, > I can certainly appreciate wanting to keep options open for implementors; > maybe the Spec could have several options as to how such a mechanism might > be realized. There is a sample on our FormsPlayer site (http://www.formsplayer.com/) that shows how to do save and restore using standard XForms 1.0 features. The sample is called "Off-line Forms". The source shows how it can be done in a 'standard' way. Note that although the demo uses "file://" there is nothing to stop you changing the 'save' location to be some central server. You could then "save and resume" from one device to another. On whether it should be in the spec or not, we feel that trying to define "save and resume" any more than this could actually be restrictive. Of course there are lots of features that a processor could have - showing lists of unfinished forms, for example - but all of this should be outside of the spec, and implementation specific. Regards, Mark Mark Birbeck Co-author Professional XML and Professional XML Meta Data, both by Wrox Press Download our XForms processor for IE 6 from http://www.FormsPlayer.com/ Managing Director x-port.net Ltd. 4 Pear Tree Court London EC1R 0DS E: Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net W: www.x-port.net T: +44 (20) 7689 9232
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