Thanks for the reply Simon, I guess my first question for you isn't so much about using XForms as about deploying an XForms based solution: what are you using for an XForms processor on the client side (or on the middle tier)?
Fate has consipired against me in my attempts to evaluate plugins (Im using IE5 and the IE6 box I can use isn't on SP1 yet and I dont have admin rights on it, and I couldnt even download the novell plugin etc...) and the two server side ones Ive had a (very) quick look at (Chiba and IBM XML Forms (an alphaworks thing)) both seemed very buggy when I tried playing with their samples. Only processor implementation Ive seen so far that appears to work is XSmiles, but I cant see us deploying that on every seat at large customer sites... :-( Interesting to note that XForms has moved up to a "Proposed Recommendation" status now. Hopefully that means the spec is pretty stable now which might prompt more moves to implement it. regards Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Simon Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2003 16:47 To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] XForms I'm just starting to use it myself. And it's a bit of a pain in the RS really. I think that it will become a standard next year, as for use within static sites it's an extremely easy thing to use. (The wizard can knock up a form page in about 2 minutes, and saves a boat load of typing) However, if like me, your forms are dynamic, it can be a bit of a sh*t to deal with. You will need to know exactly how to generate the xform xml doc on the fly, and this means knowing it inside out and back to front. (I'm on my fifth or sixth read through and it's starting to make my brain hurt) But I've read enough to know the basics, so any question drop me a line. Cheers Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 8:02 AM Subject: [OT] XForms > Currently the app Im working on is using an xhtml front end (with struts of > course) but Ive been asked to look at XForms with an eye to migrating to it > in the future (and probably throwing in a migration to JSF while Im there). > > Currently the XForms spec is only a candidate release with afaik very little > browser support, though I gather there are a number of plugins that > implement an XForms processor. > > I'm in the process of reading through whats on the w3c site about it but am > still pretty clueless as to what it really implies in terms of what we would > do different to now. While I understand what I am reading I dont truly grok > it yet. > > Anyone else been looking into this and can share some pointers on what I > need to think about? > > Is XForms really going to be the next stage in the evolution of forms on the > browser or is it just some hyped up hot air thats really a wild goose chase? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
