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Here is a summary of the Orbeon Forms developments for August/September 2009:
1. News

XForms 1.1 went to W3C Proposed Recommendation. Further, XForms 1.1 is currently transitioning to full Recommendation. It took years to get there, but it was worth it: XForms 1.1 is a [...]

Here is a summary of the Orbeon Forms developments for June/July 2009:
1. Form Builder and Form Runner

Documentation. The Form Builder user documentation is now available in English [...]

Here is a summary of the recent Orbeon Forms developments:

1. Form Builder and Form Runner

We keep polishing Form Runner and Form Builder. In addition to the usual bug-fixes:

Form attachments are attached to emails, and Form Runner is able to include values from form controls in email subjects.

The Form Runner summary page is more configurable: there [...]

It is common to see, in web applications, Gmail-like UIs, where you show a list of items (emails in the case of Gmail), and where you’d like users to be able to perform actions on multiple items at a time. For this, users need to be able to select items. This can be done by [...]

Now that Orbeon Forms 3.7 beta 1 is out, we have committed a series of changes that intend to improve the performance of the XForms engine. These particular changes initially focused on <xforms:insert> and <xforms:delete>, but they ended up requesting a fairly major refactoring of the XForms controls code on the server. Some (probably obscure) [...]

In the last few months, we have been regularly posting updates to Twitter so we have had less of a need to write full blog entries. But now we feel that owe the followers of this blog a higher-level update:

Form Builder and Form Runner. A big priority is our continued work on Form Builder and [...]

With XForms 1.0, xforms:output was limited to displaying plain text. With the introduction of XForms 1.1, xforms:output adds powerful capabilities which include handling images, HTML content and more, depending on your XForms implementation.

To achieve this, XForms 1.1 introduces a new mediatype attribute. You use it to specify the type of the content to display, using [...]

Wow, it’s been a month since our last post in this blog, and one of the reasons for this is that we have been very busy enhancing Orbeon Forms! Here is a quick list of the most notable additions:

XPath variables. XPath variables can be used within controls, models and actions, with the xxforms:variable (or exforms:variable) [...]

XForms 1.1’s small number of actions are surprisingly powerful. By combining them, you can do almost any operation you can think of within an XForms page. Yeah, XForms is Turing complete.

There are however a few use cases that remain difficult to achieve. For example, you can easily repeat an action while a condition is satisfied [...]

A couple of weeks ago I attempted to order prints from Flickr. I added a few photos to my cart and was redirected to a service called QOOP. This has a neat interface that allows you organize photos for printing in a book format. I played a bit with the interface and then was caught [...]

I recently booked a flight on the Continental web site. I knew approximately the flight I wanted to book, so dug right away into the search to select it. I encountered the following issues:

When the results came, the prices were in Swiss francs. Since I was in Switzerland but using a US credit card, I [...]