- From: Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer <schnitz@mozquito.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:15:05 +0200
- To: <www-forms@w3.org>
All, Mozquito has launched the first public beta of XML WebAccess 2.0 this week. The XML WebAccess 2.0 server software is installed on our http://solutions.mozquito.com external web server. That's why the previous XForms tutorial actually worked in IE, see message: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/2001Sep/0008.html The XML WebAccess 2.0 server software implements XML-UI by transcoding the markup into javascript, allowing existing browsers to render XML-UI/XForms documents. XML-UI is a XHTML family member using modules from: - XHTML - XForms - FML (instead of XForms UI, for now) More information on the product, beta download, etc. at http://www.mozquito.com. A Quick Reference Card of all XML-UI tags and attributes is available at: http://www.mozquito.org/sources/xmluiquickrefcard.pdf A few initial XML-UI/XForms examples can be found at: http://solutions.mozquito.com/demo/examples/ XML WebAccess 2.0, and therefore XForms, can be tested by everyone on the new public FTP trial server. Public FTP Access to http://solutions.mozquito.com: username: forms password: www www access: http://solutions.mozquito.com/www-forms/ Everyone can create their own subdirectory under the "forms" root directory and upload their XML-UI/XForms documents and XML instance data to test-drive XML WebAccess 2.0 and XForms. I've already created such a directory for Stephane Culang's <produit.xml> XForms example. You can find his XForm under: http://solutions.mozquito.com/www-forms/culang/produit.xhtml With the FTP access, Stephane can now play around with it, modify, etc. Once happy, the server software can be downloaded as a trial version from the Mozquito Website and installed on any web server, currently IIS/NT and Solaris only, later Apache on Linux and FreeBSD, too. Once the software is installed on a web server like it is on http://solutions.mozquito.com, XML-UI/XForms documents can be rendered by browsers like IE5 as if there was native browser support for XForms. Since we're still in beta, things will change and nothing is perfect or bug-free just yet - but some XForms actually do work in standard browsers as of now! Mozquito's XForms implementation "XML WebAccess 2.0" will also be fully bundled into the next version of Software AG's XML Tamino Server Package: http://www.softwareag.com/corporat/news/august2001/Mozquito.htm I'm happy to give more interactive XForms tutorials like I did with Stephane - if someone has an XML file he/she wants an XForm written for, I'm personally interested as a XML developer to see whether it can be done with the current XForms implementation. Have a good weekend, - Sebastian
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