Now, I understand it is difficult to come up with a way to define a scripted flow of web pages w/o actually writing some sort of a script. Can this be XML ? Does Cocoon Forms support using XML for flow script instead of JavaScript ?
I sincerely hope it never does. XML isn't worth "a pile of fetid dingo kidney" (TM) as a scripting language ;-).
Yes, easy solution with minimal code such that someone with XMLSpy can configure and minimal developer involvement is needed.
Do you really think that any moron can script logic in XML using XMLSpy? Why not in Javascript, then?
Anyway, if "RequestGenerator, FormValidatorAction, XSLT, XSLT extensions in Java and very very very minimal XSP actions" satisfy your needs, just use them. Nobody is taking them away from you. But if you want to stay on top of the current trends, as Bertrand said, then Cocoon Forms (Woody) is the way to go.
As far as W3C XForms is concerned, as Stefano said at the GetTogether (paraphrasing): we are fond of standards, but we are not afraid to invent our own when the existing ones do not fit. Many of us don't think XForms is a good standard for server-side form processing. Besides, can you really find lots of developers familiar with it? Will you be able in the future? Learning the Woody markup can be done in a few hours, so it's not that big deal, isn't it?
Just my 0.02€.
Ugo
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