Re: [Xsltforms-support] Declarative4all Overview?

2021-03-30 Thread Tim Thompson
Gary, My perspective as an XForms user: XQuery is designed for querying and working with document structures, which makes it a great fit for declarative client-side DOM manipulation--as I recall, the XQuery implementation in Fleur.js lets users manipulate the HTML5 DOM directly (even though it's n

Re: [Xsltforms-support] Declarative4all Overview?

2021-03-30 Thread Gary Kopp
Thanks, Alain. Your explanation is very helpful, and thought-provoking. I imagine other new outsiders will also find it helpful. A question, if you will indulge someone that doesn’t fully understand the XForms technology landscape yet. Why do we need a new XQuery engine? I believe XQuery on

Re: [Xsltforms-support] XForms repeat and tables?

2021-03-30 Thread Alain Couthures
Tim, Since XSLTForms 1.5, repeats within tables are converted into attributes ("xf-repeat-ref" or "xf-repeat-bind") without adding potentially missing tbody elements. XSLTForms 1.5.4 now supports table/xf:repeat, not just tbody/xf:repeat.

Re: [Xsltforms-support] Declarative4all Overview?

2021-03-30 Thread Alain Couthures
When developing web applications, XForms, because it has been specified to be implemented in browsers, is not enough. XSLTForms is a client-side XForms implementation using XSLT 1.0 as a trick to transform XForms pages into HTML pages with CSS and _javascript_. It wo

Re: [Xsltforms-support] XForms 2.0?

2021-03-30 Thread Steven Pemberton
It's heading in the direction of XForms 2, adding new features at each release I guess. The most important one implemented is Attribute Value Templates. Steven On Monday 29 March 2021 23:00:43 (+02:00), Gary Kopp wrote: Does xsltforms 1.5.x support the XForms 2.0 spec, or am I still limit