Re: Revalidation quandry...

Andrzej Jan Taramina wrote:

> > 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".  
fine. we'll add the ref attribute. but can you give a usecase for the 
additional 'or' syntax? - its not obvious to me.
> 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.
i think 0.9.4 will be out then already. we currently prepare it cause in 
the meantime lots of bugs have been fixed and some new stuff has been 
added (itemset,...)
> 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).
sounds reasonable. the adpatation to the latest version shouldn't be 
that dramatic - i'll be happy to help with that.
Joern

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


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