The Orbeon Forms Blog

In just a few days I will be going to Amsterdam for the XTech 2005 conference. The topic: "XML, the Web and Beyond". It looks that this should be fun and interesting, and it's going to be difficult to choose between tracks at times! I have a particular interest in... More

We will be speaking at the XTech conference in Amsterdam on May 26. Don't miss us there! The subject of our main talk is Are Server-Side Implementations the Future of XForms?. It will discuss server-side approaches for XForms. We will also do a product presentation about Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS) the... More

Matthew Langham posted the slides of his upcoming presentation at Holland Open on open source business models. He talks about his experience during the last 5 years, mentioning what doesn't work (brochures, cold calls) and most importantly what works: making sure the community uses your stuff, speaking at conferences, having... More

Cover Pages, a publication of OASIS, carries an article about our submission of the XML Pipeline Language (XPL) to the W3C. The article provides a good overview of the goals and motivations, the processing model, the language features, and related works. More

Consider this: Blogger can host your blog. Blogrolling lets you have an online blog roll, which in short is a list of links to blogs you are watching. XQuery The Web lets you run XQuery on a web page. If your blog is on Blogger, and your blog roll is... More

Yes, this blog has been down for most of last week. The reason: our server had been hacked and we were closing the breaches that have been used by the hackers. Among those, were security bugs in both WordPress and AWStat. Those two applications are written with the two most... More

The new Spotlight search in Mac OS X Tiger shows what a search engine should not have: a submit button. Why do applications force us to click on a button, instead of showing us what we are looking for as we type? The widespread deployment of browsers supporting the XMLHttpRequest... More

One benefit of using the integrated browser in Studio is that the Logging Events view can be cleared every time you click on a link or reload a page, so it only displays data for the last page you loaded. If you don’t want the browser to be always visible... More

I read a couple of days ago an article by Brian Goetz on IBM DeveloperWorks about screen-scraping with XQuery. The idea behind HTML screen-scraping consists in accessing an HTML page on the web, and extracting information out of it. The DeveloperWorks article proposes two ideas: Using JTidy to convert the... More

We are now serving the RSS feeds for this blog through FeedBurner. FeedBurner makes sure the feed is well formatted so it works optimally on your reader. The URLs for the new feeds are: Postings RSS Comments RSS You can continue to use the old URLs if you wish as... More