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Component Model Strawman: Declarative Syntax

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Element Registration

Moved to Component_Model_Strawman:_Element_Registration

Shadow DOM Template

An initial shape of new shadow tree can be defined using a template element. 


<head>
  <template id=”comment-template”>
    <div><content></content></div>
  </template>
</head>

A template is instantiated through

  • ShadowRoot constructor and
  • shadow-template CSS property.

The ShadowRoot constructor

The ShadowRoot constructor accepts a template element to instantiate. 

  ..
  this.shadow = new ShadowRoot(this, document.getElementById(“comment-template”));
  ..

The shadow-template CSS property (brainstorming)

The template for shadow root also can be applied using CSS property. 


.comment {
  shadow-template: url('#comment-template');
}

Note that imperatively-applied shadows always supersede shadows from the styling. Also, there is no way to access style-originated shadows from the scripting environment.

The Instantiation Event and Scripting

Even though the template can be used to define an extra visual representation for an element, It would be useful if author can attach a script for the template-generated shadow tree.

The template element generates an instantiation event for each template instantiation. Authors can listen it to setup event handlers for generated elements by the template. The event doesn't bubble, and it isn't cancelable. 


<head>
  <template id=”comment-template”>
    <div><content></content></div>
  </template>
  <script>
  var e = document.getElementById("comment-template");
  e.addEventListener("instantiation", function(evt) {
    evt.root.querySelector("div").addEventListener("click", function(evt) { ... });
  });
  </script>
</head>

A template element also allows a script element as a child, whose script block can access HTMLTemplateElement.current to refer the enclosing template element. 


<head>
  <template id=”comment-template”>
    <div><content></content></div>
    <script>
    HTMLTemplateElement.current.addEventListener("instantiation", function(evt) {
      evt.root.querySelector("div").addEventListener("click", function(evt) { ... });
    });
    </script>
  </template>
</head>

Isolation

Standalone Form

The element registration and template definition are also done in a separate HTML. Effective markup vocabulary for the defining HTML is limited. Agents only recognize a head element as a child of the root element when the HTML document is loaded as required. 


<html>
  <head>
    <element for="x-comment">..</element>
  </head>
</html>

The host element can load the html with element definition using a link element with its rel attribute set to component. 


<html>
  <head>
    <link rel=”component” type=”text/html” href="comment.html">
  </head>
</html>

The standalone definition can be done by a script file. 


<html>
  <head>
    <link rel=”component” type=”text/javascript” href="comment.js">
  </head>
</html>

This is equivalent to linking to a HTML file of like: 


<html provide>
  <head>
    <script type=”text/javascript” src="comment.js"></script>
  </head>
</html>

Shared definition

In the default, these definitions are coming into the host document. That means a providing HTML doesn’t have its own document nor the global object. Agents use these of the host document.

Isolated definition

If the rel attribute contains the term isolate, the linked HTML is loaded as a separate document object. The script inside the document is given a separate global object.

For the host document, there is no way to access the loaded document directly. 


<html>
  <head>
    <link rel=”component” type=”text/html” href="comment.html" confined>
  </head>
</html>

RolandSteiner Should we make isolate an attribute on link rather than a rel value? As Dimitri mentioned, this could be useful in general and would allow us to branch it off into a separate spec.

Morrita Any declarative syntax is a part of other spec. This is cross-cutting view of multiple proposals. moved out confined declaration to standalone attribute. I have no idea how this works for other types of linked resources though.

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