[Laszlo-dev] Implicit replication, <view> datapath property and, <datapath> xpath property

[P T Withington]

Delving into making constraints class methods, we have some tag- 
compiler work to do.

Apparently you can say:

   <view datapath="${...}" />

or:

   <view>
     <datapath xpath="${...}" />

In both cases, the constraint really applies to the (invisible)  
replication manager, not to the view or the datapath.  Right now this  
constraint is picked up at run time, ripped off the clone template and  
smashed onto the replication manager.  That is not going to work in  
modern (JS2) runtimes.

I think the right approach here is to have the tag compiler re-write  
implicit replication into explicit replication, so:

   <view datapath="${...}" />

becomes:

   <replicator datapath="${...}">
     <view />
   </replicator>

etc.

Does this seem feasible?  Could we even spit out a deprecation warning  
suggesting that explicit replication be used?