FtF 2010 03 24 Agenda

W3C Forms WG March 24-26, 2010 Face to Face Agenda

Held in conjunction with [W3C AC Meeting], March 21-23, 2010

Chair

• Leigh Klotz, Xerox
• Steven Pemberton, CWI/W3C

Location

IBM/Lotus location
1 Rogers St
Cambridge, MA

Nearby Hotels

Sonesta

Kendall Hotel

John Jeffries House

Area info

Map

Schedule: 9am to 5pm

Topic: XForms 1.1, 1.2 and 2.0; XForms for HTML

Minutes

[1]

Agenda

• Rechartering
  • who to invite
  • liaison with XCG
• Work on next version of Test suite
• UI Events
  • Orbeon XForms Refresh Events Proposal
  • decide to accept basic approach
  • decide on event unification issue
• XML Events2 -- need someone to take the editor's draft further
• JSON
  • options for custom submission+responses = serialization extensibility (JSON *Fish, YAML, and beyond)
  • pruning / validity
  • JSON in XSLTForms
• XPath 2.0
  • advance draft
  • xforms function signatures: use strings for backward compatibility with 1.0 or use 2.0 types
• Custom XPath functions -- last response from XPath WG was that context item not provided to function but use variable as workaround
• Node creation functions Node 'create' functions
• Patterns -- master/detail, save, etc.
• Components -- how to package patterns
• XBL
  • a solid base, but need other parts to implement custom components
  • show how to use declaratively without JS, and how to use JS to integrate
• Variables -- naming, scope, variable lifetime, AVT
• External models (text from Charlie) with questions
• XForms for HTML
  • agreement on goal
  • then a quick outline
• Live documents
• Map/reduce support -- constraints on structure of instances as well as values
• Tree/recursive controls
• form-author notification events considered good
  • custom-control events are a separate item to be considered in the future
• Putting the control in charge
  • unifying @ref and @nodeset this and related messages
• simple lifecycle for form controls
  • use case development
  • non-relevant controls still visible and kept up to date, but disabled
  • separate pruning for submission: relevant but displayed? relevant but hidden?
• Model-based_switching_with_switch switch/@ref, Model-based_repeat_index repeat/@index-ref
• XForms 1.1 Errata
  • appearance list
  • anyuri
• Extensible Actions
  • XSLT

See Future Goals and Category:XForms12 for details