Testing our Form by Saving a Bookmark

To test the form, get a URL for a document that you want to save for later. You could use a link to this tutorial:

http://www.formsPlayer.com/introduction-to-xforms

Enter this into the URL field, along with a brief description--something like:

An introduction to creating web applications with XForms.

Your form should now look like this, and be ready to send:

When you press Save you'll be asked to log in. If you have used del.icio.us before, then you may already be logged in, but if not you will get a prompt similar to this:

Once you've entered your information, you will see that the form is replaced with a simple success message to indicate that your link has been saved:

This is exactly how HTML forms work--the current page is replaced with a new one from the server--and is the default behaviour in XForms. However, we can do far more interesting things with submission, as we'll see later.

In the meantime, if you want to assure yourself that this worked, open your del.icio.us page in a new browser. You can find your page by making a URL from your login name and the del.icio.us home-page. For example, my page is:

http://del.icio.us/mark.birbeck

If you're happy that your link was saved, we can move on to add some more features to the form.