The Orbeon Forms Blog

XForms 1.1’s small number of actions are surprisingly powerful. By combining them, you can do almost any operation you can think of within an XForms page. Yeah, XForms is Turing complete. There are however a few use cases that remain difficult to achieve. For example, you can easily repeat an... More

A couple of weeks ago I attempted to order prints from Flickr. I added a few photos to my cart and was redirected to a service called QOOP. This has a neat interface that allows you organize photos for printing in a book format. I played a bit with the... More

I recently booked a flight on the Continental web site. I knew approximately the flight I wanted to book, so dug right away into the search to select it. I encountered the following issues: When the results came, the prices were in Swiss francs. Since I was in Switzerland but... More

Yahoo! today announced a new mobile platform called "Mobile Widgets". The amazing part is that the language used to describe widgets, called Blueprint, is based on XForms: Much of Blueprint's philosophy and syntax comes from XForms. We opted for a full declarative language because it was the only way we... More

It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the final release of Orbeon Forms 3.6! Orbeon Forms is an open source forms solution that handles the complexity of forms typical of the enterprise or government. It is delivered to standard web browsers thanks to XForms and Ajax technology, with... More

We had great success with the XForms Evening a the XML 2007 conference on Monday. We were wondering if people would really want to attend sessions that late in the evening (from 7:30 to 9:00 PM), but the attendance beat our expectations, with easily over 60 people cramped in the... More

As a reminder, there will be a free XForms Evening this Monday at the XML 2007 conference in Boston, and I will be presenting a talk about XForms and eXist. There are several great speakers scheduled and this is a great opportunity to learn about XForms, so don't miss it!... More

Yesterday, I was filling-out an application form on the E*TRADE web site. So here I go, entering my information in a traditional wizard-like workflow, with page reloads et al. When I get to the end of it (about six or seven pages total), I figure I would check if I... More

We have just posted a release candidate for Orbeon Forms 3.6. Orbeon Forms 3.6 now contains over 170 improvements over Orbeon Forms 3.5.1. The idea behind the release candidate is to see if anything is obviously broken before we release 3.6 final. It does not mean that Orbeon Forms is... More

When a form field is loosing the focus, the browser is supposed to send two events: blur and change. The latter is only sent if the you have changed the value of the field. When you change the value of a first field and tab to a second field, all... More