- From: Flinton Adam <Adam.Flinton@cfh.nhs.uk>
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:28:05 -0000
- To: "Elliotte Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, "Joern Turner" <joern.turner@web.de>
- CC: "Vincent Berger" <vincent.berger@afp.com>, "Caroline Jarrett" <caroline.jarrett@effortmark.co.uk>, <www-forms@w3.org>
> For what it's worth, I don't include Chiba and Orbeon in this class. > Those I haven't used. I think those projects have problems > too, but they're of a different nature. I'm not convinced of > the feasibility, usability, or maintainability of a primarily > server-side solution; but that's an argument for another thread. > I created a completely client side set of forms for opening/displaying/editing local XML files. I was able to get them to open etc on IE with a plugin & firefox with it's plugin, however I was defeated by the lack of tables within tables in a solid way (ff did this but the tables were all over the place) & by the lack of an ability to plugin specific handlers for specific blocks of XML held within a multi-schema/compound documents (e.g. XHTML as a documentation type within a large xml document). Until these 2 areas are dealt with, what you have is a direct "access forms" replacement with no "rich text wysiwyg" editing & no way to display an XML tree in a std way (i.e. tables within tables) which is less than people require (unless you think that people are willing to go back to plain text &/or handcrafting xhtml markup). However I did come away from the exercise appreciating the underlying design of XForms & dearly hoping that these problems can be sorted rapidly as they make so much sense & would aid me & others like me to such a great extent vs the way I had to go eventually (local tomcat instance running a Java/XSLT combination where the expressed to browser xhtml includes some Javascript to give the element of in browser functionality required). Adam This e-mail is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies; please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation.
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