XForms 1.2 Modularization

Overview

• The Data Layer Specifications

  • The Data Island Module

  • The Data Binding Attributes Module

  • The Data Accessors Module (setvalue, insert, delete)

• The Submission Module

• The XPath Functions Modules

• The Model Layer Specifications

  • The Model Container Module

  • The Model Item Property Binding Module

  • The Validation Module (constraint, required, type, datatypes)

  • The XML Schema Validation Module

  • The Relevant Module

  • The Readonly Module

  • The Calculate Module

• The User Interface Layer Specifications

  • The Form Controls module

  • The Input Form Controls (input, textarea, select1, select, range, ...)

  • The Output Form Control module

  • The trigger control and submit control modules

  • The Container Form Controls Modules (group, switch, repeat)

  • The Label , Hint , Help , Alert , and Message Modules

• The XForms Module

More Detailed

• Specifications for Data Layer

  • The Data Island module - Charlie

    • Create instance element that provides data separately from the document
    • instance element may have id attribute and may have child element
    • Function for getInstanceDocument()
    • Function for replaceInstanceDocument()
    • Function to load instance, which dispatches event data-instance-load, cancelable and bubbles, the default processing of which loads the instance.
    • Optional to implement src and resource attributes are added to the instance element

  • The "Data Binding Attributes" module - John

    • Defines notion of inscope evaluation context
      • Current default for outermost SNB or NSB is an instance data island, but should be defined generically so that consuming profile defines the root
    • Create instance attribute with IDREF content to set starting instance, default to instance from starting inscope evaluation context
    • Defines the Single Node Binding attribute group
    • Defines the Nodeset Binding attribute group
    • Put ref in SNB group
    • Put nodeset in the NSB group
    • Put context in SNB and NSB groups
    • Add instance() function, included in the extension functions group
    • Add two parameter id() function, included in the extension functions group
    • Add context() function, included in the extension functions group
    • This module needs to be able to answer the following questions:
      • What is the initial inscope eval context of this element?
      • What is the amended inscope eval context of this element?
      • What is the result of the SNB or NSB?
      • Was there an expresssed SNB or NSB (as opposed to the result being equal to the amended context)?

  • The Data Accessors module - Charlie

    • Defines setvalue with SNB
    • Defines insert with NSB
    • Defines delete with NSB
    • Defines xforms-insert and xforms-delete
      • Current default is an instance data island, but should be targeted at a location defined by the consuming profile
    • Adds setvalue, insert, delete to Actions group

• The submission Module - Uli and John

  • Includes Need event for submission result received event

  • xforms-submit, xforms-submit-done, xforms-submit-error, xforms-submit-serialize
  • submission element and attributes
    • submission module attributes: Common, resource, action, mode, method, serialization, version, indent, mediatype, encoding, omit-xml-declaration, standalone, cdata-section-elements, separator, includenamespaceprefixes
    • XForms driver module would define attributes ref, bind, validate, relevant, replace, target, instance
  • submission module child elements: header, method, resource, Actions element group
  • submission module: send action element, load action element

• Specifications for XPath Functions - John

  • Define an extension functions group, identify by a URI for purpose of unique naming only
  • Define that a host language can optionally import the extension functions group into the XPath function library as NCName functions
  • Data Integrity functions module, included in the extension functions group
  • Date and Time functions module, included in the extension functions group
  • Conditional functions module, included in the extension functions group
  • Math functions module, included in the extension functions group

• The Model Layer Specifications

  • Model module (model element, functions attr, model events, add @model to SNB and NSB bindings)

    • Defines model element as a container
    • Define model content group, initially to contain zero or more instances; other modules able to add to the model content group
    • The model provides scope limiting behavior to binding attributes and instance() function invocations in its subtree
    • Defer the @functions attribute because it seems to be the small part of the notion of mustunderstand, which has been removed
    • The property() function
    • Adds @ model to SNB and NSB groups
    • Define the reset action and initial instance storage
    • Define a change list management facility (by listening for text data mutations, which may come from setvalue, calculate, or external DOM access)

  • The bind Module Nick

    • Define the bind element
    • Add bind element to model content group
    • Add @bind to SNB and NSB attribute groups
    • Change from nodeset attr to Node Set Binding attributes
      • Note that this adds context attribute to the bind element, which is good
      • The context attribute changes context for other attributes but does not, in and of itself, change the node to which MIPS are applied (e.g. if no nodeset is expressed)
      • Note that a containing model restricts instance attribute to within itself
      • Note that a containing model restricts model attr to be itself
      • If a bind element has a bind attribute, then the bind element is ignored

    • Define rebuild action and xforms-rebuild event for model element (if we move xforms-rebuild event to model module this allows us not to refer the model module (it can use the rebuild action ))

    • Need to define the generic MIP decoration mechanism
      • Allow attributes but also a child element called property
      • The property element should have name and calculable value attributes
      • For static property values, use property element content

      • Property is re-evaluated on when rebuild action is called

    • Appendix that shows how infoset contributions should be implemented when using DOM

  • The calculate Module (calculate) John

    • Define recalculate action and xforms-recalculate event for model
    • Add master dependency graph notion to rebuild
    • Consumer of change list from model module

  • The validation Module

    • Attributes constraint, required, type (for datatype only)

    • The Core XForms Typelib Module (adds the 'must' datatypes in xsd and xforms namespaces)

    • Define revalidate action and xforms-revalidate event for model element

  • The XML Schema Validation Module

    • schema attr on model
    • inline schema
    • xsi:type
    • full schema validation
    • ability to refer to schema-defined datatypes in type

  • The relevant Module (relevant)

  • The readonly Module (readonly)

    • This module needs to say that conformant implementations will not allow performing of mutations on readonly nodes (according to the rules XForms currently defines)
    • This affects getInstanceDocument() so that it returns a DOM whose methods respect non-mutability of readonly nodes
    • This affects the setvalue, insert and delete data accessors
    • This affects submission instance replacement

  • The p3ptype Module (p3ptype) MarkB and Paul

• The User Interface Layer specifications

  • The Form Controls module

    • Defines the setfocus action
    • Define the refresh action and the xforms-refresh event for model elements
    • Define UI binding as extending from Single Node Binding to get behaviors of MIPs and notification events (xforms-valid, xforms-invalid, xforms-value-changed, etc.)
    • Consumer of change list from model module
    • This module allows custom form controls to use UI bindings

  • Input Form Controls module (input, textarea, select1, select, range, upload, ...)

  • Output Form Control module - Keith

  • The trigger control module - Keith

  • The submit control module - Keith

  • Container Form Controls
    • The group module
    • The switch module
      • Includes the toggle action

    • The Repeat Module

      • repeat element
      • setindex action
      • Augment definition of references and dependencies based on index changes

    • The repeat attributes Module

  • The Label module

  • The Hint Module

  • The Help Module

  • The Alert Module

  • The Message Module - MarkB

• The XForms Module - Steven

  • Pull together various modules into a package
    • Data Instance module
    • XPath extension functions library module
    • Actions module based on XML Events 2
    • Data Accessors module
    • Binding attributes
    • The model and bind modules
    • calculate, relevant, readonly
    • Core validation module (constraint, required, type, core typelib)
    • XML Schema validation module
    • The submission module
    • The UI module, UI binding attributes module
    • The input controls module
    • The output module
    • The label module
    • The container controls modules (group, switch and repeat modules)
    • The message, hint, help, and alert modules
  • Provide composition-level semantics for the modules
    • Define binding attributes context based on instances
    • Ability to use NCNames to invoke functions of the XPath extensions library
    • Add label as required to various input controls and optional on other form controls (e.g. trigger, output, group)
    • Add help, hint, alert to various form controls
  • Define driver-level processing model
    • Define xforms-model-construct, xforms-model-construct-done, xforms-ready, xforms-model-destruct
  • Based on XML Events 2 as Actions module
    • XForms defines an enhanced evaluation context for if and while
  • Deferred update concept contributed to Actions module