Form Selection Order of Precedence

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

Form definition properties are used to determine which version of a form to use. The order of precedence used by the registry is:

1. HTTP Request (GET/PUT),
2. URL action, (Cmd)
3. Message-State,
4. Content-State,
5. Browser Capability (browser type and version)
6. Version
7. Platform
8. MajorVer
9. MinorVer
10. Language

For the first 7 of these, a non-wildcard value has highest precedence, a wildcard value has middle precedence, and a NULL value has least precedence.

For the version properties, the precedence (highest to lowest) order is =, <=, >=, <, >, *, and then NULL.

Note   Except for the browser capability, attributes must match exactly. Browser capability comparisons are:

= equals

<= less than or equal to

>= greater than or equal to

< less than

> greater than