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Subject: Re: A simple XSLT transformation -> XForms output
From: S Woodside <sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:44:23 -0400

Andrew,

thanks for the info. I also looked at Chiba, another person's suggestion. It looks cool and uses XSLT but it not a completely-XSLT implementation (which is what I'm looking for, basically).

Although that may not be possible.

On Saturday, April 19, 2003, at 02:53 AM, Andrew Watt wrote:

When I analysed the situation about 6 months ago it seemed like XForms was a waste of time until there's an implementation in a regular browser. And even then, the functionality can be reproduced (it seems to me) without needing XForms, thus, the browser support will probably lag behind genuinely novel things like SVG support. So, I decided to go with regular HTML forms.
I don't necessarily share the assumption that everything has to happen in the regular browser. But that, almost certainly, is off topic and could be a long discussion.

IBM alphaworks released a few days ago an implementation for normal browsers - more specifically it was designed to display in IE 5.5+ with MSXML 4 Sp1. Which I had but the supplied examples didn't work without scripting errors. IBM's response was that my errors were due to not having MSXML 4 Sp1, which I could see the correct DLLs were there and the Properties indicated they were the correct version.

So, if the IBM implentation will work for you (which it didn't for me) you might like to explore it.

Hmm... I think I'll pass for now. I'm looking for something that doesn't use DOM manipulations in the browser and can therefore be implemented on the server side (like chiba ... except chiba uses client-side DOM).

Skimming the latest chiba white paper it seems as though that author may also be looking at avoiding the DOM on the client side as well. It's apriority for me, as I wish to support any browser (which I was unclear about before, since I said "a browser" ;-)

simon

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A simple XSLT transformation -> XForms output Andrew Watt - Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:57:35 -0400 (EDT) S Woodside - Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:52:29 -0400 (EDT) Colin Paul Adams - Sat, 19 Apr 2003 02:39:19 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Watt - Sat, 19 Apr 2003 02:48:13 -0400 (EDT) S Woodside - Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:39:32 -0400 (EDT) <= Andrew Watt - Mon, 21 Apr 2003 02:10:12 -0400 (EDT)

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