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On W3C’s XForms mailing list, Jan-Felix Schwarz has announced the Oryx XForms Editor, a web-based tool for creating XForms. You can visually edit forms, export and import them in XForms format. The editor runs in your web browser (Firefox), zero software installation required. The editor is still in an early stage and is currently available for testing and feedback. Oryx is an open platform for web-based modeling developed by the Business Process Technology research group at the Hasso Plattne

I was asked offline for more details about what I have in mind around XiX. Take a simple piece of XML, like this: 34. An XForms Model can be applied, in an out-of-line fashion, to that instance. This is done through a bind element, with XPath to identify the nodes in question, plus other “model item properties” to annotate the instance. The calculate property is a good one:

I’m pondering implementing the computational parts of the XForms Model in XQuery. Doing so in a largely functional environment poses some challenges, though. Has anybody tackled this before? How about in any functional language, including ML, Haskell, Scheme, XSLT, or careful Python? I borrowed the book Purely Functional Data Structures from a friend–this looks to be a good start. What else is out there? Comment below. -m

I haven’t tried this, but these guys claim to have a solution where The form definitions are saved and exchanged as XForms, and the data as XForm[s] models. The data can be exchanged over http (if the phone users can afford GPRS and have a data connection) or over compressed SMS messages. Sounds like they have the right idea… -m

The latest batch of advances in mesh4x and JavaROSA allows you to do forms-based data input and editing on any java-enabled phone and synchronize with other phones or a server. You can define a generic form, load the form definition to any  java-enabled cell phone loaded with the JavaROSA forms clients extended with a mesh4x transport component, do data entry in your phone and synchronize the data 2-way with a server or directly peer-to-peer with another phone handset. The form definitions

A determined spambot has been submitting the XForms contact form on XForms Institute. OK, so it’s probably more Flash-aware than XForms-aware, but still. -m

GWT is good, i like it, but it is too basic and does not solve the major chore of UI programming. When you do business application UI you end up with plethora of forms, lists, datagrids and complicated navigation logic. MVC frameworks are very good in tidying the navigation logic and separating data from representation. Still [...]

Endless options mean web development does not have to hit the rails September 26, 2008 by dharmeshmistry As I have stated before, better application interaction across different devices should be the web standard we all aim for. However, progress has been sticky - and it can be difficult for users to access applications on different devices. Standards such as XForms and WHATWG provide a step in the right direction, but are constrained by either the need for user plug-ins or the slow develo

A concrete proposal for inlining JavaFX Friday, 29 August 2008 Jan Erik calls me the “high IQ” type. Unfortunately, I think he means “impractical” and “living in an invory tower”. The idea of a inlining JavaFX script is actually a smaller and incremental goal. It is practical and is achievable. It will allow people who don’t have the JavaFX SDK to experiment with the technology, within the browser, just as they have been doing with HTML. The inlining proposal goes somewhat like this… Jav

Here is the truth about XPath in the XRX architecture if you follow the specs literally: Within the XForms spec, there is a small but important sentence though: A future version of XForms is expected to use XPath 2.0, which includes support for XML Schema datatypes. And that is just enough to allow XPath 2.0 usage within Orbeon Forms. It has been supporting XPath 2.0 for quite a long time already by the way.

Modern executive carry a bag full of internet-ready devices, such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants and laptops and have become used to being able to access information any where, any time and now on almost any device.   Allowing users to input data from a variety of devices is a commendable aim. So much for the creditable objective; get the underlying standard wrong and the value of your application will be limited.   For a start, users will find it difficult to access applications

W3C And Its Relevance To Advanced Web Design Technology W3C consists of member organizations and other companies who are engaged to develop a standard web technology. Till now, W3C has already written more than 90 standards which are known as W3C recommendations. What is W3C? W3C or World Wide Web Consortium is an organization established with the objective to develop a set of pre-defined practice standard for the internet. According to W3C, the internet can reach its full potential if th

You already knew that you can use an XSLT transformation to convert data from one XML format into another XML format. Something like this:Last week I remembered that a few years ago, just before I discovered XForms, I was actually looking for an XSLT processor that works bidirectional. Meaning that after the transformation, if you change something in the output document, the equivalent values in the input document also change. Like this:Back then, there was an alpha quality example project calle

So while waiting for my consulting contract from UVM to come through I thought I’d while away the time with a METS XForm. This has immediately proved more challenging than I had anticipated. I think it would not be to hard to make institution specific forms but that it will be nearly impossible to create a universal METS editor. Maybe the best bet would to be to create a tool that accepts a template or sample METS record and then builds an XForm from that. For now however, I’m going to see what

The newest buzzword supposed to beat LAMP over the next few years is XRX:XForms + ReST + XQueryAt least when it comes to XML technology, this combination should be up for the job. A nice feature is the scalability of the architecture: it is easily extended with additional layers, for example in SOA environments.In May there was a post on XML.com calledXRX: Simple, Elegant, DisruptiveThis post still uses the Mozilla XForms plugin as a client. As other posts point out, the Orbeon XForms platforms