Re: Revalidation quandry...

> Uli and me discussed this issue again today and we also came to 
> conclusion that this scenario isn't handled well in XForms and should be a
> considered a XForms flaw to the corrected in a 1.1 version.

I agree....XForms is not really fully baked.  The shortcomings are only now 
coming to light as people like me implement complex systems.  One definite 
shortfall is the focus on client-side processing, which is contrary to the 
way many applications are built/deployed these days (server-side).

> in the meantime we can provide a Chiba extension which handles this 
> usecase: our validator takes a xpath already so we could simply extend 
> the validate element like this:
> <xforms:revalidate chiba:ref="a/b" />
> 
> would only consider all all nodes below and including the xpath a/b
> 
> what do you think? would that solve your problem?

That would do the trick for sure!  Be nice if you could use "or's" in the 
xpath.  For example "a or b".  

The only issue would be that I would need to upgrade to a new version of 
Chiba.  My app is still running on 0.9.2, but I'm hoping to upgrade to 0.9.3 
not too far down the road (few weeks or early Jan) and to get Chicoon 
packaged and working with the latest/greatest Chiba as well.

So go for it!  

BTW...I am going to renumber the Chicoon versioning to be consistent with the 
Chiba version that it supports/requires.  That is, the next Chicoon version 
will not be 0.2.  It will be 0.9.2 to work with Chiba 0.9.2 (or maybe 0.9.3).

Thanks!

Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com



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