Describe defaults of optional range attributes

[MartijnR]

min=[minimum value] (default 1)
max=[maximum value] (default 10)
step=[step size] (default 1)

[lognaturel]

Should this perhaps be an XLSForm issue? I know we discussed defaults there for convenience but I thought we were making them required at the XForms level.

[MartijnR]

Oh yes, that's an option. In XForms they are all optional (without defaults apparently, so that's weird) so we'd have to clarify the requiredness in this spec then.

[MartijnR]

Shall we document that we deviate by making them all required?

[lognaturel]

Does https://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/#ui-range say that defaults can be specified in the model for all range elements in a form? Do you know what that syntax would look like? I don't think we have a precedent for doing something like that so I'd be comfortable with saying they're required in the body.

Another deviation is that we only have defined them for integers and decimals, not for dates and the other semantic types this spec doesn't support (e.g. year).

[MartijnR]

Not sure. It could be that they are referring to constraints there.

I'd be happy with making them required. It's clear and as you said we have XLSForm/ODK Build to apply default values to the XForm anyway, so almost nobody is inconvenienced.

[MartijnR]

Also would be easy to remove the requirement unlike adding it later.

[lognaturel]

It could be that they are referring to constraints there.

Seems possible.

Also would be easy to remove the requirement unlike adding it later.

Good point. Ok, let's do required.