Re: forms-lite testbed

Dave -- 
To make the authoring of repeat attrs intuitive, we explicitly
added repeat- as a prefix to the attr names from memory ...

Dave Raggett writes:
 > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, T.V Raman wrote:
 > 
 > > For repeat via attributes, I suggest applying the xforms repeat
 > > attributes to fieldset --- we originally designed that set to go
 > > on html tr element.
 > 
 > I initially looked at the WebForms 2.0 approach to this but felt 
 > that it was too tightly bound to tables and that a more elegant 
 > approach was worth it. I therefore looked at the minimalist idea of 
 > just providing the set of fields and their labels that are to be 
 > repeated. The common styling will be as a number of rows with each 
 > label applying to the column below it. After a few experiments, I 
 > ended up with some code that separates the labels from the fields 
 > and then generates a table to wrap them. I tried using CSS for this, 
 > but it requires there to be nodes that act as table rows, and in any 
 > case it didn't work with Internet Explorer. I therefore chose to 
 > generate the HTML table elements as needed. You can see an example 
 > at:
 > 
 >    http://people.w3.org/~dsr/forms-lite/9/index.html
 > 
 > and also
 > 
 >    http://people.w3.org/~dsr/forms-lite/11/index.html
 > 
 > The fieldset element then acts as the XForms repeat element and 
 > takes an attribute that specifies the initial number of rows to 
 > show. XForms uses the number attribute for that, which makes sense 
 > given that it appears on the repeat element. However on the HTML 
 > fieldset element, having number as an attribute name wouldn't be 
 > obvious to most people as a means for indicating that the contents 
 > will be repeated. I therefore used "repeat" instead.
 > 
 > This is where I think we could do with inviting people who are
 > respected web developers to provide us with the perspective of
 > the authoring community that will be using this stuff.
 > 
 > p.s. there are a number of other issues relating to repeated 
 > fieldsets but I will leave that to later discussion.
 > 
 >   Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett

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