user input specs -- alternatives

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Subject: user input specs -- alternatives
From: Terence Kearns <terencek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:17:57 +1000

For what i need most of the time, XForms is overkill. Does anyone know of a light-weight vocabulary for specifying user-input requirements in XML.

Every XML/XSLT developer I have worked with has rolled his own at least once. ie.

<inputGroup
    title="Some big form"
    type="form"
    destUri="myProcessor.jsp"
    xmlns="yet.another.wheel.reInvention">

<description />

<inputGroup
    type="section"
    title="1a"
    xmlns="yet.another.wheel.reInvention">

<inputItem id="foo1" type="text">
    <defaultVal>la la la</defaultVal>
    <constraints>
        <constraint max="255" regex="\w" />
        <reference refId="foo0">
            <case selectedDisplayItem="N/A">
                <assert value="" method="hide">
            </case>
            <case selectedIndex="0">
                <assert value="N/A" method="writeProtect">
            </case>
        </reference>
    </constraints>
    <defaultParams height="6" width="40" class="theme1" />
</inputItem>

... more input items...

<inputGroup>

<inputGroup>

Then you can build libraries of XSL widgets to render these things, and use them over and over.

It seems like no two attempts are the same and they all serve different purposes. Has anyone out there found an input specification vocabulary that they liked?

I myself am interested in something that works well with the concept of widgets written in XSL [to XHTML typically].


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Terence Kearns ~ ph: +61 2 6201 5516
IT Database/Applications Developer
Enterprise Information Systems
Client Services Division
University of Canberra
www.canberra.edu.au

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user input specs -- alternatives Terence Kearns - Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:18:35 -0400 (EDT) <= Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) - Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:19:48 -0400 (EDT) Terence Kearns - Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:30:43 -0400 (EDT)

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