Re: normalizedString/input and string/textarea?

Hi John,

Do you mean that the tab character is allowed for xf:input? It doesn't 
seem possible for HTML input, am I wrong?

Thanks!

-Alain

Le 14/04/2011 18:26, John Boyer a écrit :
> Hi Alain,
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> xsd:string is the almost-right datatype, and so there has been no 
> priority on doing better.
> normalizedString does stuff to a string that we would not want.
> The exact right datatype would be one pattern derived from string with 
> the regex pattern [^\n] as the only thing input really says 
> differently than textarea is single line input.
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> From: Alain Couthures <alain.couthures@agencexml.com>
> To: "www-forms@w3.org" <www-forms@w3.org>
> Date: 04/14/2011 09:03 AM
> Subject: normalizedString/input and string/textarea?
> Sent by: www-forms-request@w3.org
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> Hello,
>
> I'm still perplex about the differences between core forms input controls.
>
> More specifically, if I want to edit an instance according to types, I
> would consider that xsd:string is not correct for xf:input but for
> xf:textarea.
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> It is obvious that the carriage return, line feed and tab characters
> cannot be entered using xf:input but xf:textarea.
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> So, why isn't xsd:normalizedString the default type for xf:input?
>
> Thank you very much for your answers!
>
> Alain Couthures
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