Re: XForms: Question about tax form example

Aaron Reed wrote:

> I agree with 2 and 3.  1 should be 'may have a containing form control'. 
>   In none of the quotes you provided (nor anywhere in the spec) is label 
> restricted to only being a child of certain form controls. The fact that 
> formsPlayer, X-Smiles, and Novell's XForms processors all render labels 
> outside of controls without error leads me to believe that we are 
> behaving correctly.  We are compatible with other implementations who 
> have a similar interpretation of the spec.  If the WG wanted labels only 
> contained in form controls, then they could have enforced this in the 
> XForms schema or turned the label into an attribute on a form control, 
> but they didn't.  Because it isn't restricted by the spec, then we 
> should allow the form author maximum flexibility while maintaining 
> compatibility with other implementations.  We can't always predict how a 
> form author may chose to use a control to meet their needs.
> 
> More on this topic is addressed by this thread in the W3C's mailing list 
> archive: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/2005Mar/0066.html

Thanks. I am forwarding this to www-forms to see what other people 
think. But again, the statement from the spec that caught my attention 
is this one:

"8.3.3 The label Element - This required element labels the containing 
form control with a descriptive label."

The specification is known not to be 100% consistent. This may just be 
an example of that. In addition, I don't really see the benefit of using 
xforms:label outside of a control. You can use xhtml:label instead, or 
just some other XHTML constructs.

-Erik