- From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:49:59 +0100
- To: www-forms@w3.org
Mark Birbeck wrote:
>
> John,
>
>> Several events include useful context information that can be accessed
>> from XPath expressions using the `event()` function. I would like to be
>> able to add context information to events that are dispatched using the
>> `xf:dispatch` element[0].
>>
>> [...]
>
> <xf:setvalue ref="event('context')" value="instance('other')/context"/>
> <xf:setvalue ref="event('name')" value="@name"/>
> <xf:dispatch name="foo" target="m" />
The question is then: what would event('blah') return? Especially if you
dispatch a custom event for which no properties are predefined.
I know you can make event('blah') create and return a text node or an
element, but I have always found that kind of suggestions quite clunky,
maybe partly because it is without precedent in any XML specification
that I know of.
-Erik
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Received on Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:50:03 UTC