Re: Question about nested XForms actions and ev:observer

Hi Erik,

Yes, the inner action can have event attributes on it, yes they will set 
it up as handler, and yes the inner action still does run as part of the 
outer action even if it has event attribute on it.

The same set of statements would be true of XML events elements were used 
to remotely refer to the inner action and set it up as a handler for 
events.

When the so-called inner action is directly invoked to handle the event 
for which it is directly registered, it is not considered to be an "inner 
handler" just because it is inside of another xforms action. Specifically, 
it will execute deferred updates when finished if it was directly invoked. 
 It only continues to defer updates if it is executed by the outer 
handler.

Cheers,
John M. Boyer, Ph.D.
Senior Technical Staff Member
Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher
Chair, W3C Forms Working Group
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
IBM Victoria Software Lab
E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com 

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Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com> 
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Question about nested XForms actions and ev:observer







All,

Consider the following submission, located in a proper place so that 
the outermost <xforms:action> element can react to a DOMActivate event:

<xforms:action ev:event="DOMActivate">
     <xforms:send submission="my-submission"/>
     <xforms:action ev:event="xforms-submit" ev:observer="my- 
submission">
         ...
     </xforms:action>
     <xforms:action ev:event="xforms-submit-done" ev:observer="my- 
submission">
         ...
     </xforms:action>
</xforms:action>

A few questions:

* Is it legal for the nested actions to have ev:event and ev:observer 
attributes?

* If so, do the nested <xforms:action> element actually register as 
event handlers on the specified observers?

* Are those executed in the flow of the outermost action, if that 
action is triggered?

-Erik

PS: Clearly, I could write these actions as follows:

<xforms:action ev:event="DOMActivate">
     <xforms:send submission="my-submission"/>
</xforms:action>
<xforms:action ev:event="xforms-submit" ev:observer="my-submission">
     ...
</xforms:action>
<xforms:action ev:event="xforms-submit-done" ev:observer="my- 
submission">
     ...
</xforms:action>

But still, bear with me and assume I want to do the nesting, for the 
sake of seeing these questions answered ;-)

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