Re: Dynamic @action attribute on xforms:submission

Erik Bruchez wrote:
> 
> 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!
Chiba supports AVTs in its latest Core for the reasons you pointed out. 
It's already common and intuitive for many XML authors.

And i agree also that this will stimulate interest of authors to have 
the same in other contexts. Why? Cause it would just be so useful to 
have. I would appreciate if the WG would consider and specify such an 
extension.

Joern
> 
> 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 21:50:50 UTC