- From: T. V. Raman <raman@users.sf.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:34:54 -0700
- To: mark.birbeck@x-port.net
- Cc: elharo@metalab.unc.edu, atom-protocol@imc.org, www-forms@w3.org
This is a great suggestion -- I suggest creating a
gdata-xforms-client project alongside the various other GData
bindings to languages like python.Mark> Hi Elliotte,
Mark>
Mark> It's pretty straightforward with XForms 1.1, but
Mark> impossible with 1.0. It's not just the methods you
Mark> mention (PUT and DELETE), but to do introspection you
Mark> need to be able to pick up URLs dynamically. And if you
Mark> plan to use GData you will need the ability to retrieve
Mark> non-XML data via submission in order to authenticate,
Mark> which is also a 1.1 feature.
Mark>
Mark> We've got loads of code lying around that does this,
Mark> ranging from using eXist to add, remove and query
Mark> items, through to interacting with the various Google
Mark> services. I'll try to get a few things together and
Mark> make them available.
Mark>
Mark> One suggestion; if you're interested in doing some work
Mark> in this area, why don't we do it on Google's Code area?
Mark> We could create an XForms libary to sit alongside the
Mark> other GData libraries, which would surely help XForms
Mark> adoption and profile. :) I'm more than happy to
Mark> contribute our forms to this.
Mark>
Mark> Regards,
Mark>
Mark> Mark
Mark>
Mark> On 16/04/07, Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Mark> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone yet written or started work on an XForms client
>> for APP? I googled but didn't find anything. If the space
>> is open I may take a crack at it myself.
>>
>> I think XForms 1.1 would be required since XForms 1.0 does
>> not support PUT and DELETE.
>>
>> --
>> Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd
>> Edition Just Published!
>> http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/
>> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
>>
>>
>>
Mark>
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