Re: how to reset just a part of an model

Hi John,

thank you.

Currently I use the first method you give.
It's also the only way I found to implement the "Cancel" (= reset + go
back)

In fact, it's a so common function of UI that I hoped a more specific
solution in XForms,
that's why I asked.

Hower, I think that the second solution is now, with the new 1.0 specs,
possible.
But not with the "old" ones.
Namely,

The new w3c specs "says" :

        "9.3.5 The insert Element
        ...
        The new node is created by cloning the final member of the
homogeneous collection."

and the old one:

        "The new node is created by cloning the final member of the
homogeneous collection 
        specified by the initialization instance data."

So, with the old processor, I can clone a node only once, because the
next time I try to clone
it (with insert), the obtained clone is the initialization one (as
specified in "old" 1.0).

As opposed to "new" 1.0 specs, in which I can understand that it is the
current last node
that is cloned, and not the initialization one.
But it's not implemented in my favorite XForms plugins, for the moment.

Best Regards,
vinzo.


Le jeudi 13 octobre 2005 à 10:40 -0700, John Boyer a écrit :

> 
> Hi Vincent, 
> 
> You'll have better support for this in XForms 1.1 because it will have
> an ability to clone a node 
> from anywhere to anywhere.  So you could put your prototypical data
> for when a case is first 
> started into some separate instance data, and you could then reset a
> case by cloning in the  
> prototype then deleting the current data. 
> 
> For XForms 1.0, you could achieve the same effect if you specially
> organized your data so that 
> the real data and the prototype elements were children of a common
> parent.  You could then 
> use insert and delete actions to achieve the same effect.  But it's
> more cumbersome and it 
> imposes a particular data structure on you... 
> 
> Best regards,  
> 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/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Vincent Berger
> <vincent.berger@afp.com> 
> Sent by: www-forms-request@w3.org 
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> 10/13/2005 06:13 AM 
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>           Subject
> how to reset just
> a part of an
> model
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> 
> Hi.
> 
> Considering a multi-screens form, each screen 'implemented' by a
> xforms:case
> and proposing a 'reset' trigger to reset the data concerned in the
> case (and only in the case).
> 
> Do you know how to do the reset of the part of the model (i.e. a
> nodeset of an instance) 
> concerned, and only this part. (so without using xforms:reset) ?
> 
> Thanks.
> vzo.
> 
> -- 
> Vincent Berger <vincent.berger@afp.com>
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