I have one question on the html type: Does the html type preserve namespace
values when it's parsed or processed?

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:42 PM, P T Withington <[email protected]> wrote:

> [refined subject, laszlo-reviews -> laszlo-dev]
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> On 2010-05-25, at 18:06, André Bargull wrote:
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> > On 5/25/2010 11:40 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is there documentation on what "text" and "html" types are supposed to
> mean?  (My intuition is that "text" should mean "interpreted as CDATA" and
> "html" should mean "interpreted as node 'content'".  I.e., < and & don't
> have any special meaning in the former, but they do in the latter.
> >>
> >> We had the concept of elements which were allowed to contain HTML tags
> >> in their text vs ones which weren't, but I don't remember what the
> >> compiler was supposed to do about enforcing that. Maybe it was
> >> supposed to warn if you had HTML elements in a content
> >> that was declared as "text" rather than "html"?
> >
> > We've got a (rather simple) table covering valid attributes types at [1].
> >
> > And "text" and "html" types are mentioned here [2]:
> > > A tag may also contain text if it defines an attribute named text with
> a value
>
> Should read "type" (not "value")?
>
> > of text (for plain text) or html (for XHTML text), or if it extends a
> class that does so. This technique may be used to define a tag that contains
> text but does not extend <text>  or <inputtext>  .
> >
> > [1]
> http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/docs/developers/methods-events-attributes.html#d0e76574
> > [2]
> http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/docs/developers/introductory-classes.html#introductory-classes.text-classes
>
> I propose then that we distinguish the types `text` and `html` from
> `string`, and that we permit them on any attribute (not just on an attribute
> named "text":  although it is by defining an attribute named text that you
> tell the schema that your class defines a tag that permits content, you
> might want other attributes with these types).  I propose the following
> semantics:
>
> string:  Value is parsed as an ECMAScript string
> text:  Value is parsed as XML CDATA
> html:  Value is parsed as XML content
>
> Implementation:
>
> string:  call the string literal parser on the value, use
> ScriptCompiler.quote to store the result
> text:  call xmlEscape on the value, use ScriptCompiler.quote to store the
> result
> html:  use ScriptCompiler.quote to store the value
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