RE: How you can help: Interoperability (The Knowing - Doing Gap)

Hello all,
First of all sorry for my english. I´m a student who is working on his end of grade project and I decided a couple of months ago to make the part based in web forms with xForms. Most of this forms are made using as reference X-Smiles 0.6(I mean, testing them on X-Smiles 0.6), and they work correctly on it, but when I needed to use some features that were not available in that version I started working with Novell's XForms Preview and, besides the obligatory changes due to shifting from the February WD sintax to the CR one, I had to modify a great part of the code in order to adapt the forms to this second implementation.
The main reason of this is that X-Smiles supports html content within the body part of the document, such as paragraphs, tables, etc, but Novell Xforms does not, and it structures all the content with the <group> element and the help of stylesheets. Maybe this issue hasn't much to do with xForms or with this mailing list, but I thought it was an important difference between both implementations.
I encountered other minor differences such as including the <output> element inside a <label>, wich only woks on Novell XForms Preview, or in the way of declaring an external stylesheet. I also had problems in using external instances with Novell XForms, due to the namespaces, but maybe I´m wrong at this point.

I tried to make a little silly example that works on both implementations and I uploaded it to this location :
http://www.geocities.com/gmcorral2002 
the first two examples are the same form made expressely for Novell and for X-Smiles, and the third example is an attempt to make it work on both implementations.

Well I'm not sure if this can help for anything, but I hope it can be a little useful.

Guillermo Menéndez