- From: John Boyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:15:58 -0700
- To: adam.flinton@nhs.net
- Cc: Www-Forms Www-Forms <www-forms@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <OFE58929CB.AAC99DFD-ON8825760E.00743A30-8825760E.0074D2C4@ca.ibm.com>
Hi Adam, The form author is free to put the model's child elements in any order that makes the most sense to them. One could, for example, put one or more "main" data instances and some binds and a submission, then have more instances and action handlers and a submission for a web service. For the most part, you could reorder them without affecting behavior. Changing the first instance to being other than first would be the main notable thing not to do, but it doesn't sound like your automated process would do that anyway. My first reaction is that reordering, relative to the order produced by straightforward XInclude expansion, wouldn't be desirable. If someone took the trouble to create an XInclude-able component, then the content probably makes sense together, so seeing it in close proximity in the target document would seem to be most natural. Cheers, John M. Boyer, Ph.D. STSM, Interactive Documents and Web 2.0 Applications Chair, W3C Forms Working Group Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software IBM Victoria Software Lab E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer Blog RSS feed: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/rss/JohnBoyer?flavor=rssdw From: Adam Flinton <adam.flinton@nhs.net> To: Www-Forms Www-Forms <www-forms@w3.org> Date: 08/10/2009 02:07 AM Subject: Model child nodes order? Dear All, I have created a system for templating XForms which started off using XInclude but then evolved from there as I needed to be able to put in more advanced Xpath selects than a simple numeric e.g. /x/y[1] (& because XInclude became much too slow). My question is: Given I replace something like: <xInclude href="./displayFragments/Models_Instances.xml" xpointer="//SysInfo_Model[1]/*[1]/*" /> With the contents of a predefined model instance (which might itself include xInclude elements) I have no definitive order set i.e. I might get bind elements before an instance or a submission element as the first child of <model> I can happily add a sort for reasons of clarity (i.e. the code ends up "compiling" a complete XForm which is then saved as a file & used & can thus be looked at by a human), but I was wondering if there is any sort of implied order as the schema appears not to have one e.g.: <xsd:sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xsd:choice> <xsd:element ref="xforms:instance"/> <xsd:element ref="xsd:schema"/> <xsd:element ref="xforms:submission"/> <xsd:element ref="xforms:bind"/> <xsd:group ref="xforms:Action"/> </xsd:choice> </xsd:sequence> Adam ******************************************************************************************************************** This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender that you have received the message in error before deleting it. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is the secure email and directory service available for all NHS staff in England and Scotland NHSmail is approved for exchanging patient data and other sensitive information with NHSmail and GSI recipients NHSmail provides an email address for your career in the NHS and can be accessed anywhere For more information and to find out how you can switch, visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail ********************************************************************************************************************
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