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Submitted by formsPlayer on Fri, 2007-01-05 18:13.

The handbooks aim to offer a complete reference for those interested in formsPlayer and XForms.

Each handbook is © copyright 2006-2007 the individual contributor unless otherwise stated.

About formsPlayer

  • Deployment, licensing and support
  • Tips for posting to the forums
  • Case studies
  • Moving between different formsPlayer versions
  • Version numbers and build policies

Programming with formsPlayer and XForms

  • Setting Up Your Development Environment
  • Introduction to XForms
  • Using XPath expressions
  • Sending and receiving data with submission
  • Controlling performance of switch and case.
  • Manipulating data with handlers and script
  • Action handlers
  • Conditional action handlers
  • Styling
  • Understanding the XForms dependency-engine
  • Using Selenium to test XForms and formsPlayer
  • Using formsPlayer to extend the browser
  • Creating and using custom controls
  • APPENDIX: Default CSS styles for XForms
  • APPENDIX: The Soft-bar Installer API

The XForms cookbook

  • Using repeat with large nodesets
  • Allowing typed data elements to be valid when empty
  • XForms and OpenWFE - Part 2
  • XForms patterns
  • Navigating recordsets
  • XForms and OpenWFE - Part 1

Programming Sidewinder

  • About Sidewinder
  • Sidewinder as a web applications viewer
  • xH: The new programming language you already know
  • HOWTO: Using the XForms model to drive Google Maps
  • Re-using Sidewinder components inside your own applications
  • APPENDIX: Javascript API Reference
  • APPENDIX: Desktop Application Framework Parameters

Active forum topics

  • Xforms upload
  • Forms Player 1.5 uninstall
  • how to submit the XForm to a web service URL for converting XML to PDF
  • Installation on Vista/IE 8
  • When I clicked on de'li.cious sample, it bombed!
more

Recent blog posts

  • A brief history of Ubiquity formsPlayer
  • How formsPlayer can help take XForms to new platforms
  • Different behaviour of repeat in 1.5 and later
  • A better XForms news service
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  • Server move and Drupal upgrade complete
  • How to harness the power of XHTML and XForms in your .NET applications
  • Clarification on formsPlayer CE 1.5.4 and 1.5.5
  • XForms custom controls, using XAML and Silverlight
  • Skimming, and an Open Source project for a GData XForms client
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Recent comments

  • I checked the samples as
    20 weeks 5 days ago
  • posting to web service
    30 weeks 2 days ago
  • Try using version 1.6
    1 year 29 weeks ago
  • New version available next week
    1 year 29 weeks ago
  • Empty item
    1 year 33 weeks ago
  • In general you can submit
    1 year 34 weeks ago
  • DOMFocusIN works!
    1 year 34 weeks ago
  • DOMFocusIn does work for xf:seelct1
    1 year 34 weeks ago

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