350617 - repeat attrs not working on xf:group element

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: XForms, defect)

Description

[Steve Speicher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060828 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060828 Minefield/3.0a1

repeat attributes have no effect on <xforms:group>

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Steve Speicher]

Attachment: testsuite testcase with just group

Comment 2

[Steve Speicher]

This fails W3C testsuite non-normative case 9.3.2.a

Comment 3

[aaronr]

The hack that is currently in place for repeat attributes will be ignored for any element that has xbl bindings applied by a more specific css rule.  Since every xforms element has at least one binding in place, we'd need to special case the elements that we want to support having @repeat-nodeset.  Group is about the only xforms element I think might make good use of this attribute.  But I can also see the argument that introducing yet another binding to support this might just introduce more headaches.  Particularly since any binding/style rules we introduce for xf:group to support this would need to keep in sync with any other style rules for group that might otherwise be conflict (including the current binding for xf:group).  A group with repeat attributes needs to look/behave like any other xf:group except for the repeating content, of course.

Comment 4

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

RIP xforms