Ernst Bunders wrote: > so, if i am correct, the mapping between field types and actual input > fields is undefined and arbitrary? that seems like a bit of a hole in > the fied types specification. has it never been considered to define > this aspect as well?
I do not understand that conclusion. The field- or datatype only defines the field, and tries to provide all necesary information for creating input fields. So, it does not say 'create a text-aray' or 'create a <input type="string"'. I figured that the correctnes of "\n" would provide that information sufficiently, and in a logical, semantic way. So, the precise mapping is undefined, indeed, because naturaly it depends on the presentation medium, about which the datatype must know nothing. But it is not 'arbritrary', because there must be a sensical relation between the datatype's restrictions and properties and the way to present value-editors for that datatype. Michiel -- Michiel Meeuwissen mihxil' Peperbus 111 MediaPark H'sum [] () +31 (0)35 6772979 nl_NL eo_XX en_US _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
