Re: src instance attribute processing

I think there's nothing in the spec that prevents such optimization.  As 
long as you can't tell the difference
from an interoperability perspective, it should be OK.

The tricky bit would be detecting whether the instance is being 
referenced.  During model construction,
the attempt to do xforms-rebuild and resolving UI bindings could all lead 
to references of the data.

As far as I can tell, the only way the optimization you describe would be 
of benefit is if the data is *never* 
referenced except by actions.  This seems like a fairly special case. I.e. 
forms could be made to
work this way, but it would be at the expense of the benefits derived from 
the declarative nature of the
xforms model.

John M. Boyer, Ph.D.
Senior Product Architect/Research Scientist
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
IBM Victoria Software Lab
E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com  http://www.ibm.com/software/





"Rafael Benito" <rbenito@satec.es> 
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src instance attribute processing







Hi,
the data pointed by the "src" attribute must be processed at the initial 
processing XForms. I think this is not necessary. It should be sufficient 
if it were processed the firsr time a reference to such a data is used in 
the application. There could be cases in which the execution never 
makesreference to that data and, therefore, there is no need to process 
it. This is of interest for small device XForms processing.
Regards,
Rafael Benito Ruíz de Villa
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