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On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (...) > > I've read that (and most of the other articles since xml.com's > rejuvination) but I don't really have time to look into XForms at the > moment... > > Is it the next big thing? > I followed XForms and even implemented this kind of server-side XSLT + client-side XForms framework around 2003, and maybe I'm wrong because I did not check it lately, but my feeling is that XForms _was_ the next big thing until... nothing. At that time, back in 2003, I was convinced that Javascript was really wrong because of unequal support by browsers, and XForms was the way to go to discuss natively in XML with the server. I have been disappointed by XForms for its lack of flexibility to implement extensions beyond basic use cases. What I would have liked is the capability to embed XSLT inside XForms actions to do processings beyond "insert, delete and setindex". Today I would use Javascript + XMLHttpRequest or even JSON and it is definitely up to the task. Cheers, Eric Brichemier
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