Subject: Re: clarifications on changing how fields work
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 01:38:59 CST
At 08:08 AM 3/12/00 -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> A good example of this would be a "hyperlink field" (aka URL)
>where the field text would be the name (foo), while the "extra text"
>would be the URL itself.
>
> [...]
>
> In which case, for my example, you'd simply have my URL be an
>attribute of the field - works for me!
Again, this sounds like we're converging on consensus here. The field for a
hyperlink would be marked up something like the following:
<field type="hyperlink" ref="http://www.abisource.com">foo</field>
Of course, I've given a total of zero thought to the actual args here, but
you get the idea. :-)
Of course the obvious question this brings up is whether the contents of
this field could be an image instead of just text. Sigh. I'd hate to have
a full-generality content model for fields, if there's any sane way to avoid
it and still have decent file format compatibility with other word
processors.
Paul
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