[whatwg] additional key attribute in form field
Alexey Feldgendler
alexey at feldgendler.ru
Fri Jul 6 06:26:47 PDT 2007
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:07:10 +0200, Alexander <nav at ciklum.net> wrote:
> The simple name/value pairs that form submission is organized in are
> sufficient for expressing data structures of any complexity.
> Multidimensional keys like (name, key) in your example can be expressed
> through combined names:
>
> <input type="text" name="quantity:{id_value_here}" value="">
>
> Of course, it's how I usually do this :) But I would not be against some
> common specified approach - especially taking into consideration some
> restriction on 'name' symbolset (there are much less restrictions on
> 'value' symbolset)
Changing the form submission formats (that currently only allow for
name/value pairs) is out of scope for WHATWG.
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Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru>
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