RE: Ordering of listeners at the current node

Uli,

Very true, and I use that pattern often.  I was more interested in the behavior of the case when the event handlers are registered at unrelated locations in the host document.  Now I know that I need to ensure that individual handlers are independent of one another.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulrich Nicolas Lissé [mailto:unlisse@googlemail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:16 AM
> To: mark.birbeck@x-port.net
> Cc: www-forms@w3.org; Clark, John
> Subject: Re: Ordering of listeners at the current node
> 
> John, Mark,
> 
> while Mark is right about DOM 2 Events, you may achieve 
> ordered event handler execution with xf:action: "This action 
> causes its child actions to be invoked in the order that they 
> are specified in the document." [1]
> 
> So you could write
> 
> <xf:action ev:event="some-event" ev:observer="foo">
>     <xf:message>Hello</xf:message>
>     <!-- ... -->
>     <xf:message>World</xf:message>
> </xf:action>
> 
> Regards,
> Uli.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice10.html#action-action





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