- From: Dharmesh Mistry <Dharmesh.Mistry@edgeipk.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:26:33 -0000
- To: "Peter Bruhn Andersen" <bruhn.andersen@get2net.dk>, <www-forms@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <6E80CFEBE068F44BAD79EB89CA1FD59119A863@edgemail01.uk.edgeipk.com>
This article is a little dated now. My take on this is there is no real "winner" except that DHTML may have longer shelf life than the XForms community may like it to have. (i.e. where are the tools to help people migrate? As Steve Pemberton put it at an IBM conference, XForms is based declarative programming a major shift to current approaches) Worth you looking at: http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/ <http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/> Specifically section 1.5 which states: "This specification is in no way aimed at replacing XForms 1.0 [XForms] <http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#refsXForms#refsXForms> , nor is it a subset of XForms 1.0. XForms 1.0 is well suited for describing business logic and data constraints. Web Forms 2.0 aims to simplify the task of transforming XForms 1.0 systems into documents that can be rendered on HTML Web browsers that do not support XForms. In this transformation model, the XForms processor is a server-side process that converts XForms and XML Schema documents, according to the XForms specification, into HTML and Web Forms documents, which are then processed by the client side Web Forms processor, along with a style sheet for presentation." As per my last posting there are a number of languages on the market, and as Gerald pointed out to me - at least 12 open source XML based UI languages. I believe there are issues related to "business complexity" that have yet to be resolved by forms languages which aim to solve "form development complexity" Regards....................D --------------------------------------------------------------- Dharmesh Mistry CTO, edge IPK E: dharmesh@edgeipk.com M: 07789 222 015 Newbury Office T +44 (0) 1635 231 231 F +44 (0) 1635 569 371 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- This message may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments without retaining a copy. edge IPK Limited Registered office - 9 Wardle Avenue, Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire RG31 6JR Registered in England No. 4286817 ________________________________ From: www-forms-request@w3.org [mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Peter Bruhn Andersen Sent: 16 March 2005 09:04 To: www-forms@w3.org Subject: XForms vs. Web Forms I've just seen this article http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5581106.html It 'compares' XForms to the Web Forms 2.0 specification and concludes that Web Forms is the winner. I have no knowledge about the Web Forms specification so I would like to hear what the group thinks about the article. And perhaps more to the point: Should we keep using XForms or should we switch to Web Forms? Regards, Peter
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