[whatwg] Solution to Repetition Model Template Problem

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote:
>>
>> This actually isn't a problem. You just use the template as the initial
>> blank row in legacy UAs, with the "[id]" bit as the index of that row.
>> See, for instance, the example on the WHATWG site:
>>
>>    http://whatwg.org/demos/repeat-01/
>
>     Oh yeah? Let's say that the user if viewing a list the they can
> edit.  Under the current draft, a user with a non-WF2 compliant will
> have to remove the last row if they make changes to any of the
> non-template rows that they want to submit. The server may be able to
> compensate, but if the user doesn't know that, it doesn't really matter.

The same would happen in a WF2 UA if repeat-start has the value 1, as it
does by default.


>>>    <template id="order"><!--
>>>      <tr id="row[order]">
>>>       <td><input type="text" name="row[order].product" value=""></td>
>>>       <td><input type="text" name="row[order].quantity" value="1"></td>
>>>      </tr>
>>>    --></template>
>>
>>
>> We don't want to do that because it requires allowing the <template>
>> element anywhere (allowing an attribute anywhere is easy; allowing an
>> element anywhere is not). Also, it wouldn't work in XML, where the
>> comments can be dropped by the parser.
>
>     Oh, I'm sure there's a way around that...
>
>     <input template="template" type="hidden" value="
>       <tr id="row[order]">
>         <td>
>           <input type="text" name="row[order].product" value="">
>         </td>
>         <td>
>           <input type="text" name="row[order].quantity" value="1">
>         </td>
>       </tr>
>     "/>
>
>     Well...I'll figure it out at some point. :(

Yeah, I don't think I prefer that idea to the current one either. :-)

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