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<img width="355 height="62" align="right" alt="XML Prague Logo" style="margin: 1em;" src="http://www.orbeon.com/download/blog/xmlprague_355x62.png"/> The XML Prague sessions are now online. We will talk about practical applications of XML pipelines. Here is the abstract: Applications of XML pipelines to web applications with XPL Erik Bruchez, Orbeon The XProc XML pipeline language is well on... More

The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a new Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. Norm Walsh blogs more about it. We are getting just a tad closer from a standard XML pipeline language! More

We just released Orbeon Forms 3.5.1. This release is an update to Orbeon Forms 3.5 (see the Orbeon Forms 3.5 announcement) which brings performance improvements, the most notable one being the ability to combine JavaScript and CSS resources, as well as a series of bug-fixes. The complete list of changes... More

A few weeks ago, XForms 1.1 went to Last Call Working Draft status, and we forgot to blog about it! Luckily, John Boyer and Mark Birbeck have been quicker to talk about it. The purpose of the last call is to solicit comments about the specification before going to Candidate... More

As some studies have shown (including Optimizing Page Load Time), serving CSS and JavaScript can have a high performance cost on page loads. This reality is particularly important now that JavaScript usage is increasing in web applications through the use of Ajax libraries like the Yahoo! User Interface Library, used... More

It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the final release of Orbeon Forms 3.5! 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

Orbeon Forms has had Liferay portal support for quite a while, but it turns out that we hadn't quite done everything we could to make it easy to deploy Orbeon Forms to Liferay. So we have just done the following: The Orbeon Forms WAR file (ops.war) is now built in... More

Elliotte Rusty Harold just wrote a piece at IBM developerWorks entitled Ten predictions for XML in 2007. In particular he predicts success for XQuery, the Atom Publishing Protocol, rejoices about seeing the XProc effort going forward, and also says that "XForms, by contrast [with Web Forms 2.0], is ready to... More

We already blogged about Firebug, a fantastic, must-have, and free Firefox extension for web developers. At Orbeon, we find Firebug invaluable to debug the Orbeon Forms platform but also XForms applications written with Orbeon Forms. Well, version 1.0 of Firebug is just out, and Yahoo! has put up a video... More

A lot can happen when you interact with an XForms page: events are dispatched, actions executed, submissions sent, and more. While you can have some visibility on those by enabling XForms logging in Orbeon Forms, an important part of the state of an XForms page is simply contained in the... More