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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

This morning, I was pondering a particular aspect of XML Schema. After checking the specification, I wanted to put it into practice by writing an XML document and a corresponding schema. To validate the document with the schema, the simplest thing would have been to do it in the browser,... More

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Today, March 14, 2006, the second edition XForms 1.0 became a W3C recommendation. The intent of this 1.0 second edition is mostly to add clarifications and correct errors in the first edition. Maybe the only really new feature is the introduction of an instance attribute on <xforms:submission>. An XForms form... More

A few weeks ago Yahoo! released their Yahoo! User Interface Library, a set of JavaScript files with foundation classes to deal with events (YAHOO.util.Event) and the XMLHttpRequest object (YAHOO.util.Connect), as well implementations of three widgets: a calendar, a slider, and a tree view. The JavaScript is nicely commented and HTML... More