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XForms

Implementations

• Mozilla/ Firefox - Client-side XForms via a plug-in for the Firefox browser
  • Mozilla XForms add-on Firefox 2.0 for windows.
• Formfaces - Client-side with a javascript
• Forms Player
• Orbeon - Server-side
• Chiba - Server-side

Books

• Micah Dubinko, XForms Essentials, O'Reilly, 2003 ISBN 0596003692 web
• T.V. Raman , XForms: XML Powered Web Forms , Addison-Wesley, 2004 ISBN 0321154991

Documentation and Tutorials

• W3C
• WikiBook
• W3c.Schools
• W3C Introduction

Blogs

• Mark Birbeck of FormFaces
• A digital librarian using XForms
• Eric Buchez of Orbeon
• Micah Dubinko of XML essentials

Examples from W3C using Firefox

• Hello
• Update
• Aligned Form

Simple update to an Exist XML database

• FormFaces List of staff
• Firefox List of staff
• editPersonFx.xql source
• postPerson.xql source
• People data
• CSS

Hints

• Must set media-type=application/xhtml+xml
• XML posted has to be cleaned up and converted to XML before use in the update script. There may be a better way to do this.

Issues

• FormFaces in IE, FireFox and Opera doesn't treat the css correctly - investigating.
• Empty sequences, either initially empty or emptied by deleting the last element is a problem. The technique is to use a prototype and hide it. This article and this one from John Boyer at IBM describes this approach.