The Orbeon Forms Blog

Yesterday was my first day at XTech 2006 in Amsterdam - the pre-conference day, with tutorials and a special "Ajax Day" track. I was unable to attend all the sessions and one presenter did not show up, but I did attend the talks on Dojo, OpenLaszlo, Flex, and Backbase. Most... More

XTech 2006 is going on right now in Amsterdam. As mentioned earlier, Erik will be giving a presentation on Thursday at 4:45pm entitled XForms: an alternative to Ajax? This has been an amazing year for Ajax, and XForms has picked quite a bit of steam during this year too. On... More

You are proud of your well tested web application, and it runs just fine on your own development machine. However, when you deploy it on a Windows XP staging server and perform load testing, you start getting, from time to time, this error message: "Server access Error: Address already in... More

</param> </param> </param> </embed> </param> In Web pages using Ajax, when you click on a button or a link, instead of loading another page, that click often starts a background request to the server, and the page then updates based on the response received from the server. If the action... More

I just hit a really telling example of how XML and XForms can deliver incredible productivity. The requirement: creating a dropdown menu displaying the list of all the world's countries in French, using ISO names and codes. Here is how you do it with XForms: Download the XML file containing... More

We have just enhanced PresentationServer adding an automatic loading indicator. PresentationServer gives you an Ajax XForms engine: you write standard XForms, PresentationServer renders it in an Ajax web page that runs in mainstream browsers. With XForms, you can implement forms where server-side processing happens as the end-user interacts with the... More

The W3C XForms working group has informally decided to be more active on the public XForms mailing-list (archives, RSS feed). Until now there had been no such policy and most of the discussions were taking place in the working group's private mailing-list. This makes the XForms working group a tad... More

I already posted about the W3C Technical plenary in Mandelieu and talked about the work we are doing in the XML Processing ("XProc") working group. It's now time to talk a little bit about XForms-related work done during that week. On Wednesday, XForms working group members John Boyer, Steven Pemberton... More

In XML Schema, true and false are Boolean values, but I am learning through Koranteng blog that there are two other valid values: 0 and 1. At first, I found that hard to believe. So I headed towards the Schema Sandbox and entered this as document to validate: <root>0</root> And... More

It's the weekend, a time when we try to be not-so-technical. And this weekend I will just give you a link. A link to the commencement address given last year by Steve Jobs at Stanford. The first positive comments I heard about Steve Jobs speech didn't get me to listen... More