XForms 1.2 Modularization

• The XForms instance data module Charlie

  • The XPath Functions module

    • Most of the XForms functions, except those listed as being added by other modules

  • The Actions module Nick

    • The 'if' and 'while' attributes
    • The 'action' element and deferred update
    • The 'dispatch' action
    • Import the events attributes
    • The event() function

  • The "Binding Attributes Module" John

    • Single Node Binding (SNB) group as @context and @ref only
    • Node Set Binding (NSB) group as @context and @nodeset
    • Evaluation context information
    • The context() function
  • The instance element, @src and @resource
  • The setvalue, insert and delete element, which use SNB and NSB bindings
  • The xforms-insert and xforms-delete events
  • The instance() and id() functions

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

  • Defines model element
  • Define @functions, including its effect on XPath expression evaluation (see expr-lib-extension)
  • The property() function
  • Adds @ model to SNB and NSB groups
  • The rebuild, recalculate, revalidate, refresh and reset actions
  • The xforms-rebuild, xforms-recalculate, xforms-revalidate, xforms-refresh events

  • The bind Module Nick

    • The bind element
    • Change from nodeset attr to Node Set Binding attributes
    • Add @bind to SNB and NSB bindings

  • The validation Module (constraint, required, type (for string only))

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

  • The XML Schema Validation Module Uli

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

  • The relevant Module (relevant) Nick

  • The readonly Module (readonly) Nick

  • The calculate Module (calculate) John

  • The p3ptype Module (p3ptype) MarkB and Paul

• The XForms 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

• User Interface module

  • Defines setfocus

  • The UI Binding module

    • Extend from Single Node Binding to get behaviors of MIPs and eventing
    • Would allow custom controls to use UI bindings

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

  • Output Form Control module

  • The Label module

  • Container Form Controls module

    • group
    • switch+toggle

  • The Repeat Module

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

  • The XForms message module MarkB and Paul

    • message, help, hint, alert