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 [...]
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More mobile XForms goodness
Submitted by administrator on Fri, 10/10/2008 - 22:02.XForms spambots on the loose
Submitted by administrator on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 01:14.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
The Future of XForms
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 19:52.Some of the recent talk on the Mozilla XForms Project's mailing list (dev-tech-xforms) has been about the winding-down in effort on the Mozilla XForms plug-in. There has been praise for the efforts of those developers involved in the project, and quite rightly so. However, some people may be seeing this as a bad sign for XForms in general. Well, not so I say and the reasons for this are three-fold...
XRX
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 22:09.Bumped into XRX today. XForms + REST + XQuery. I like the sound of this, and XForms on the client just got a whole bunch easier…
I’m seeing multiple signs that the confluence of XForms and XQuery has legs. (And REST just plain makes sense in any situation). -m
XForms Ubiquity
Submitted by administrator on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 05:02.I just found out about a nice little XForms engine called Ubiquity. (Having dinner with Mark Birbeck, TV Raman, and Leigh Klotz certainly helps one find out about such things) :-)
It’s a JavaScript implementation done right. Open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Seems like a nice fit with, oh maybe MarkLogic Server? -m
XQuery Annoyances…
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 05:06.If you are used to XSLT 1.0 and XForms, you see { $book/bk:title } and think nothing of it. XSLT 1.0 calls the curly-brace construct an Attribute Value Template, which is pretty descriptive of where it’s used. Always in an attribute, always converted into a string, even if you are actually pointing to an element.
In [...]
Yahoo! introduces mobile XForms
Submitted by administrator on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 03:15.Admittedly, their marketing folks wouldn’t describe it that way, but essentially that’s what was announced today. (documentation in PDF format, closely related to what-used-to-be Konfabulator tech; here’s the interesting part in HTML) The press release talks about reaching “billions” of mobile consumers; even if you don’t put too much emphasis on press releases (you shouldn’t) [...]
XML 2007 buzz: XForms 1.1
Submitted by administrator on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 18:01.One whole evening of the program was devoted to XForms, focused around the new 1.1 Candidate Recommendation. I admit that some of the early 1.1 drafts gave me pause, but these guys did a good job cleaning up some of the dim corners and adding the right features in the right places. This is worth [...]
XForms evening at XML 2007
Submitted by administrator on Mon, 10/15/2007 - 15:47.Depending on who’s asking and who’s answering, W3C technologies take 5 to 10 years to get a strong foothold. Well, we’re now in the home stretch for the 5th anniversary of XForms Essentials, which was published in 2003. In past conferences, XForms coverage has been maybe a low-key tutorial, a few day sessions, and hallway [...]
simple parsing of space-seprated attributes in XPath/XSLT
Submitted by administrator on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 03:29.It’s a common need to parse space-separated attribute values from XPath/XSLT 1.0, usually @class or @rel. One common (but incorrect) technique is simple equality test, as in {@class=”vcard”}. This is wrong, since the value can still match and still have other literal values, like “foo vcard” or “vcard foo” or ” foo vcard bar “.
The [...]
Steven Pemberton and Michael(tm) Smith on (X)HTML, XForms, mobile, etc.
Submitted by administrator on Sat, 09/08/2007 - 22:33.Video from XTech, worth a look. -m
UC Berkeley - what I talked about
Submitted by administrator on Mon, 12/04/2006 - 17:57.Last week, I visited Erik Wilde, Bob Glushko, and students up at Cal. No major announcements, just some sharpening of discussion points.
Since this was my first visit to Berkeley, I finally got to tell the joke “thank you for your OS”. Maybe you had to be there.
The intentional web is a formalism for describing “why [...]
Mark Birbeck: ‘Ajax makes browser choice irrelevant’
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 09/07/2006 - 05:55.A must-read posting from Mark Birbeck, who knows a few things about XForms and Web Forms 2.0.
He talks about the respective approaches embodied in XForms and Web Forms 2.0, and concludes that the primary difference between them has little to do with simplicity. He goes on to analyze differences in how developers and users view [...]
