Responses to XForms 1.0 Second Last Call Comments

These are the collected Last Call comments on XForms 1.0 Second Last Call WD that were sent to the XForms mailing list (www-forms-editor@w3.org), and responses to those comments.

Status of resolution of comment:

  1. "Accepted" (accepted by the WG without change)
  2. "Accepted-OK" (accepted by the WG without change, OK with the submitter)
  3. "Resolved" (accepted by the WG with change)
  4. "Resolved-OK" (accepted with change, OK with the submitter)
  5. "Resolved-NO" (accepted with change by the WG, not OK with the submitter)
  6. "Withdrawn-OK" (not accepted by the WG, OK with the submitter)
  7. "Rejected-NO" (not accepted, not OK with the submitter)
  8. "Sent" : Message was notified to the submitter and copied to (www-forms-editor@w3.org).
  9. "NR" : No Response from commenter within two weeks.

Notification of these Last Call responses was sent to all of the commentors and the XForms list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms-editor/

Subject ID From Date
Dynamic dependencies
Editorial. Fixed

Accepted-sent-NR

8/0008 Paul Prescod (paul@prescod.net) Wed, Aug 21 2002
Single select = select1?!

Response: no suitable replacement suggested (already replied) (See reply 8/0030) (See reply 8/0034)

Resolved-OK

8/0009 Piroumian Konstantin (KPiroumian@protek.com) Thu, Aug 22 2002
P3P

Reply: 8/0019 and 7/016

Accepted.-OK

8/0016 Lorrie Cranor (lorrie@research.att.com) Mon, Aug 26 2002
Error in behaviour of the copy element

Accepted.-OK

8/0018 Jerome Negre (jerome.negre@e-xmlmedia.fr) Mon, Aug 26 2002
Scoped resolution of model attribute for binding elements (See also 8/0031)

Accepted.-OK

8/0020 Tomayko, Ryan (Ryan_Tomayko@stercomm.com) Tue, Aug 27 2002
[long] nested repeats and index()

Good catch. Fix: see message 8/0022
Accepted-sent.

8/0021 Jerome Negre (jerome.negre@e-xmlmedia.fr) Tue, Aug 27 2002
Re: [long] nested repeats and index() 8/0022 Mikko Honkala (honkkis@tml.hut.fi) Tue, Aug 27 2002
Repeat-* Attributes Considered Harmful

No. See DTD modularisation.

Resolved-OK

8/0023 Jerome Negre (jerome.negre@e-xmlmedia.fr) Tue, Aug 27 2002
"maxOccurs" oddity

Micah says at F2Fhe can live with this.
Accepted-OK.

8/0024 Micah Dubinko (MDubinko@cardiff.com) Tue, Aug 27 2002
Comments on pre-CR draft

Editorial. Thanks.
Accepted-sent-NR

8/0032 Francis Yergeau (francois@yergeau.com) Wed, Aug 28 2002
RE: XForms WD 20020821 - 2.1 Code Error?

Spec is actually OK

Accepted-sent-NR

8/0044 Dan Dennedy (DDennedy@digitalbang.com) Thu, Aug 29 2002
RE: XForms WD 20020821 - 2.1 Code Error?

Spec is OK
Accepted-sent-NR
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8/0056 Martin Plechsmid (Martin.Plechsmid@merlin.cz) Thu, Aug 29 2002
XForms WD 20020821 - 3.2.2 What are linking attributes for?

Answered by SP

Resolved-sent-NR

8/0057 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Thu, Aug 29 2002
XForms WD 20020821 3.3.1 Referencing Schemas - Catch 22?

Wrong. Answered by MD

Resolved-sent-NR

8/0058 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Thu, Aug 29 2002
XForms WD 20020821 3.3.1 Referencing Schemas - Catch 33?

Wrong. Clarified by Cleary.

Resolved-sent-NR

8/0059 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Thu, Aug 29 2002
3.3.2 - Need for editing to achieve consistency

Editorial. Thank you.

8/0061 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Thu, Aug 29 2002
3.3.3 - The ref attribute

Editorial. Thank you.
Accepted - sent-NR

8/0062 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Thu, Aug 29 2002
XForms WD 20020821 - 3.2.1 - include / XInclude ?

No, it is not XInclude. It is any mechanism used for hosting. See for example M12N XHTML.

Resolved-sent-NR

8/0067 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Fri, Aug 30 2002
XForms WD 20020821 - 3.2.1 / 3.3.4 Seeming inconsistency

Thanks. Fixed.
Accepted - sent-NR

8/0068 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Fri, Aug 30 2002
MustUnderstand Module - Well I would like to :)

We will explain. See minutes to P.A. FtF

Resolved-sent-NR

8/0070 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Fri, Aug 30 2002
3.5 - Extension Elements Muddled Thinking and Expression?

We disagree.

Resolved-sent-NR

8/0071 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Fri, Aug 30 2002
maxOccurs and minOccurs default values

There is a reason and it is obvious from the use case. It shouldn't be expressed in the draft.

Resolved-sent-NR

8/0085 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Fri, Aug 30 2002
7.8.1 - property() function - version property

We will clarify.

9/0008 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Tue, Sep 03 2002
What is an "XForms Processor"?

Editorial.
Accepted - sent-NR

9/0009 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Tue, Sep 03 2002
7.8.1 - property() function - conformance-level

Resolved-sent-NR

9/0010 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Tue, Sep 03 2002
8.1.2 and 8.1.3 inconsistency?

Editorial. Thanks.
Accepted - sent-NR

9/0019 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Tue, Sep 03 2002
8.1.7 - range Element

Whichever bound is the more restrictive is used. (Change).
Accepted - sent-NR

9/0021 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Tue, Sep 03 2002
Re: 8.1.7 - range Element

see above

9/0022 Jerome Negre (jerome.negre@e-xmlmedia.fr) Tue, Sep 03 2002
Re: 8.1.7 - range Element

see above

9/0023 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Tue, Sep 03 2002
Aug 21, 2002 Draft

Model thing: sorry.

Others. Basic misunderstandings. This stuff goes in the instance.
Resolved-sent-NR

9/0026 <Markdelanoy@aol.com> Friday, August 30, 2002 3:12 PM
WD-xforms-20020821 section 2.4 inconsistent with 3.2.

Editorial. Thanks.
Accepted-sent-NR

9/0032 Mark Birbeck Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:07 PM
Accepted. RE: 8.1.7 - range Element

Accepted-sent-NR

9/0036 Mark Seaborne (MSeaborne@origoservices.com) Tue, Sep 03 2002
8.1.9 submit/@submission, suggestion

We disagree. Explicit is good, because it continues to work, even if you change the instance.

Resolved-sent-NR

9/0133 Kurt George Gjerde (kurt.gjerde@intermedia.uib.no) Wed, Sep 04 2002
3.2.3 Single-Node Binding Attrs, problem

Good catch. Thanks.
Accepted-OK

9/0134 Kurt George Gjerde (kurt.gjerde@intermedia.uib.no) Wed, Sep 04 2002
Style sheets, styling and XForms - need fuller description and better examples

We're deliberately not defining it. We are deliberately separating style from content. Please see CSS for details.

Resolved-sent-NR

9/0135 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Wed, Sep 04 2002
Appendix G - Non-XHTML Examples needed

We will be adding an svg example.

Accepted-sent-NR

9/0136 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Wed, Sep 04 2002
9.3.3 - dynamically dynamic or coding error?

You have misunderstood; the example is indeed correct, but we shall clarify it with a better choice of names in the instance.

Resolved-sent-NR

9/0143 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Wed, Sep 04 2002
9.3.3 - Code Example Again

Change 'similar to' to 'such as'

Accepted-sent-NR

9/0146 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Wed, Sep 04 2002
9.3.6

Accepted. Already fixed.
Accepted-sent

9/0148 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Wed, Sep 04 2002
7.7.5 index() function

Accepted. Already fixed.
Accepted-sent-NR

9/0149 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Wed, Sep 04 2002
Possible Errata

Dude! Awesome! Thanks!
Resolved-OK

9/0150 "Grant Husbands" <w3c-xforms@grant.x43.net> Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:10 PM
9.3.8 - "data instance" etc

Thanks.

Accepted-sent-NR

9/0151 AndrewWatt2001@aol.com Wed, Sep 04 2002
Additional Errata

1. Accepted. Fixed

2. Awaiting M12N-S

Resolved-OK

9/0152 Grant Husbands Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:46 PM
10.1.8 Schema mismatch (trivial issue)

Fixed.
Resolved-OK

9/0153 "Grant Husbands" <w3c-xforms@grant.x43.net> Wednesday, September 04, 2002 7:20 PM
format attribute on output

Thanks
Accepted-sent-NR

9/0155 bhanu (bhanu_k@hotmail.com) Wed, Sep 04 2002
xforms-help and xforms-hint

Thanks

Accepted-sent-NR

9/0156 bhanu (bhanu_k@hotmail.com) Thu, Sep 05 2002
...Issue 47...

Thanks

Accepted-OK

9/0158 Klotz, Leigh (Leigh.Klotz@pahv.xerox.com) Thu, Sep 05 2002
Deleted item paradox?

This is not a problem: 'required' says that a node must have a value of length > 0, but not that the node must exist. To also ensure that a node exists, use e.g. minOccurs="1".

Resolved-sent-NR

9/0164 paul@prescod.net Thu, Sep 05 2002