- From: Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:24:15 -0700
- To: Xforms W3C WG <www-forms@w3.org>
All,
With XForms 1.0 and 1.1 draft, it is not possible to dynamically
specify the @action attribute on xforms:submission. However, in these
days of REST, it is obviously necessary to be able to do that.
How have implementors addressed this? The following solutions come to
mind:
o Handle @action as an attribute value template, for example:
action="http://example.org/app/{instance('my-instance')/image-name}/etc"
Benefits: very flexible; XSLT does it so we are not reinventing the
wheel.
Drawbacks: XForms doesn't use attribute value templates anywhere at
the moment. Users will expect that avt will work in other places as
well!
o Extra attribute on xforms:submission, such as @action-ref.
Benefits: does not introduce avt.
Drawbacks: another attribute to remember; requires @action to be no
longer required; doesn't scale to other attributes; *-ref attribute
names are not nice-looking ;-)
Any other ideas or suggestions?
-Erik
Received on Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:24:33 UTC