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

Held in conjunction with [[http://www.w3.org/2010/01/ac-agenda.html W3C AC Meeting]], March 21-23, 2010


'''Chair'''
* Leigh Klotz, Xerox
* Steven Pemberton, CWI/W3C

'''Location'''
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IBM/Lotus location
1 Rogers St
Cambridge, MA
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''Nearby Hotels''

[http://www.sonesta.com/Boston Sonesta]

[http://kendallhotel.com Kendall Hotel]

[http://www.johnjeffrieshouse.com John Jeffries House]

''Area info''

[http://tinyurl.com/ygrmemf Map]

'''Schedule:''' 9am to 5pm

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

=== Minutes ===
[http://www.w3.org/2010/03/24-forms-minutes.html]

=== Agenda ===
* Rechartering
** who to invite
** liaison with XCG
* Work on next version of Test suite
* UI Events
** [http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xforms-refresh-events#TOC-Proposal Orbeon XForms Refresh Events Proposal]
** decide to accept basic approach
** decide on event unification issue
* XML Events2 -- need someone to take the [http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Drafts/#xml-events2 editor's draft] further
* JSON 
** options for custom submission+responses = serialization extensibility (JSON *Fish, YAML, and beyond)
** pruning / validity
** [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/2010Feb/0003.html JSON in XSLTForms]
* XPath 2.0
** advance [http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/specs/XForms1.2/modules/xpath20/index-all.html 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 ([http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2010Mar/0024.html 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 [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2010Mar/0023.html 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
** [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2010Mar/0027.html appearance list]
** [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2010Mar/0028.html anyuri]
* Extensible Actions
** XSLT

See [[Future Goals]] and [[:Category:XForms12]] for details