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Proposal for enhanced cell content validatition

  • 1.  Proposal for enhanced cell content validatition

    Posted 04-26-2004 14:09
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    Subject: Proposal for enhanced cell content validatition


    Hi all,
    
    the current specification does not have a feature to specify the content
    that is allowed for a cell as an list of possible values. Since this a
    feature that is support by several spereadsheet applications, I would
    like to propose to enhance the <table:content-validation> element as 
    follows:
    
    a) the table:condition attribute (that takes an XPath like expression) 
    supports the new function "cell-content-is-in-list(List)", where "List" 
    is a ";" separated list of string values.
    b) a new "table:display-list" attribute, that my have the values "none", 
    "unsorted" or "sorted-ascending", specifies whether or not the list of 
    possible values is displayed in the UI wile entering a cell value, and 
    if so, whether or not the list is sorted.
    
    In fact, a) may not require a specification change, because we did not 
    specify what the values of the table:condition attribute should look 
    like exactly, but only by example. However, it might be reasonable to 
    enhance this example (or maybe to make the example condition syntax 
    normative).
    
    Best regards
    
    Michael
    
    


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