On 8/25/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/25/06, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I would like to propose a best practice for the name attribute used in
> various bits of the XML vocabulary for Shale dialogs that recommends
> restricting these to alphanumeric characters (no spaces etc.)
I suppose there's a technical reason for this ... I really like the
readability of these if we can keep them and it was why I chose "name"
instead of "id' for that attribute in the first place.
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Yes, the state IDs are meant to be IDREFs in space separated lists on
transition targets when the SCXML <parallel> element is used, where it
will be possible to have more than one transition target, as long as
the targets belong to the regions of the same parallel.
Ofcourse, when using a space separated list, having spaces in
individual tokens will throw a wrench in the works.
-Rahul
Craig
Commons SCXML v0.5 is accomodating in that it will allow spaces for
> state IDs (which is what the name attribute maps to) but there are
> good reasons why we will shy away from this in some future release be
> it at the cost of some legibility (driven by changes to that spec
> draft).
>
> I will produce a patch over the weekend such that the usecase
> application follows this best practice (ofcourse, unless someone has a
> good reason why we can't do without spaces here).
>
> -Rahul
>
