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XML specification for web forms.

XForms is an XML format that specifies a data processing model and user interface for the XML data. Eg. web forms.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/

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Is XForms still a standard that is being implemented and developed, or is there an alternative in place or being developed?

XForms was and/or is an XML markup that supports structured form data. It is a standard evolved from XML and was designed to be easily integrated into other current markup languages such as XHTML, ODF or SVG, or any "suitable markup language" as…
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Does XForms have a successor?

We are looking for a desktop forms technology with an easy to use (read non technical) authoring environment. When I last looked at this, some years back, it seemed that XForms would mature in to something really useful. Now there appears to be…
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Is XForms still a live standard?

The XForms standard page seemed to indicate that it was no longer live, and that html5 kinda sorta does the job now. Is this the case? I'm looking at storing heterogenous data nuggets as XML fragments - generating a editor page according to the…
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Server side XForms form validation and integration into ASP.NET

I have recently been investigating methods of creating web-based forms for an ASP.NET web application that can be edited and managed at runtime. For example an administrator might wish to add a new validation rule or a new set of fields. The holy…
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xforms rendered via xslt and xml error

I know this question will sound like a "from the past" thing but I need to do this for a homework and I can't make it work. The problem the following: I have xml data, called from a database, I used xslt to render an xforms document on the browser,…
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How to find all nodes of a specific type in XPath

Lets say i have the following form data instance in my view.xml:
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dynamic web forms

I'm developing a web application that allows reports to be written and viewed online. These reports will have the structure of a typical school report or annual employee appraisal report. I would like the user to be able to customise the structure…
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Is anyone using XForms in their web applications?

A few years ago we started playing around with XForms from the W3C for a web app which required hundreds of custom forms. As they aren't currently supported natively by the major browsers, what parsers/tools are you using on your projects today? I'm…
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How to handle reset behaviour when escape character is pressed twice in Orbeon Xforms

I have come to know that from IE 5, there is a strange behaviour that when escape character is pressed twice, all the form fields are reset automatically. This is not occuring in Mozilla. So as a remedy i have put a simple javascript that will alert…
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Allowing XForm controls for optional XML elements

In designing an XForm interface to an XML database (using eXist and XSLTForms), I'd like to include an input control for an optional element. The XML data records already exist and while some contain the optional element, others don't. To update a…
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XForms and multiple inputs for same model tag

I apologize ahead of time if I am not asking this properly.. it is hard to put into words what I am asking.. I have XForms model such as: I want to have multiple input…
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Can you style XHTML elements in another namespace using id and class name css selectors?

I'm developing an application that uses ubiquity-xforms. Previously I had been serving the pages up as text/html with the XHTML 1.0 doctype. If I switched the mime-type to application/xhtml+xml, I would see a pretty big performance improvement,…
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XSD to XForms and XForms to XSD conversion

Currently I am struggling with two problems: I am receiving from outer server an XSD file and based on this file I have to generate XForm. Usually the XSD file is importing many other XSD files and so on. I am writing a GUI with XForm builder. When…
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Is XRX the only full stack web application "framework" that's totally W3C?

XRX means an application where the front end is written entirely in XML dialects and the back end is written entirely in XML dialects and data is passed between them as XML over REST. Is it correct that this is the only web application stack that is…
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xforms password confirm password

I have the typical password, confirm password layout with xforms: My instance is the following: and the inputs are like these: Old…
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