- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:48:05 +0000
- To: www-forms <www-forms@w3.org>
[Email was sent too early!] Jason, > just a thought, but is there any reason that in a submission element > there couldn't be attributes like: > outfilter="some-bind-or-embeddedxsltref or url" > infilter="some-bind-or-embeddedxsltref or url" > ? > or even outfilterchain=""! I think this is a great idea, as I'm sure will many who read it. I had a slightly different take on how to add it to XForms though, but the goal is much the same. There have been some additions to XForms lately to give the author access to data at various stages of processing--just before submission, after submission errors, and so on. This sets things up nicely for exactly what you are talking about; the thing to do would be to allow an action handler that performs a transformation on _any_ node, placing the result at _any_ position desired. The reason I would prefer this to having an attribute on submission, is that firstly it could be used at any point in an action, independent of submission. And secondly it means that it need not be part of the core language--not every processor would be required to implement XSLT. The final piece of the jigsaw is that a prime candidate for providing such actions is the proposed pipeline language, which is currently being developed as a standalone language, but which would be far more useful as a set of actions that could be used in any language. Any thoughts on that Erik? :) Best regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck CEO x-port.net Ltd. e: Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/ b: http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/ Download our XForms processor from http://www.formsPlayer.com/
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