XForms Status Update

Executive Summary

It’s been a while since I wrote an update, and we’ve made good progress I think, so here’s an “executive summary” :)

The most important changes (IMHO) are:

• <select1> is supported, and is implemented in XBL. Great work from Olli. (bug 281668)

• The rest of the XPath extension functions finally made it through the Transformiix mafia :) (bug 281987)

• XForms now works in pure XUL context (bug 302915 and bug 302914). Here’s the calculator running as a XULRunner application:

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Checked in

• Fixed stupid error in XPath analyzer (bug 301168)

• Move event dispatching from revalidate to refresh, as per the XForms errata (bug 300586)

• Throw xforms-compute-exception on XPath parse errors (bug 299280)

• Make <upload> generate xforms-value-changed event (bug 300243)

• Valid bindings generated MDG loop warning (bug 301413)

• Two fixes for the XForms preferences UI (bug 302049 and bug 301801)

• Custom events could not bubble (bug 302069)

• Fix binding precedence were not correct for <hint>, <help>, and <alert> (bug 302074)

• Make <input> dispatch DOMActivate (bug 302027)

• Set correct context for controls with only model attribute set (bug 280366)

• Change context for at attribute on <insert> per the XForms errata (bug 203499)

• Fix submission allowing cross domain instance replacement (bug 302685)

• Support for <select1>, implemented in XBL (bug 281668)

• The rest of the XForms specific XPath extension functions are supported (bug 281987)

• Fix two errors in XUL that was causing XForms to fail in XUL documents (bug 302915 and bug 302914)

In Progress

• The eternal “in progress” pseudoclasses are still in progress, but are coming along — now in seperate bugs (bug 271720 has them as dependencies)

• Port <select> to XBL (bug 300801)

• Create XFormns XPI for XULRunner (build bug 298431, Gecko support bug 299716)

• <help>, <hint>, <alert>, and <message> should generate xforms-link-exception (bug 300255)

• Fix handling of the selected attribute for case as per the XForms errata (bug 302497)

• Port <switch>, <case>, and <group> to XBL, which should also fix the problem of control showing up in the wrong order (bug 301374)

• Add instance attribute to <submission> (bug 302496)

• Starting to look at how we visually inform users of fatal errors (bug 290465)

• Refresh itemset if nodeset changes (bug 303312)