Re: XForms and APP clients

Elliotte Harold 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.
>
Apart from the challenges introduced by the event + form model (which by 
the way simplify many things in the end), a limitation I find with 
XForms in its proposed incarnation (1.1) is that the XForms model is 
quite closed ended when it comes to content. It chooses xs:simpleContent 
as the basis for producing and displaying form instances.

A major consequence is that rendering atom:link as xhtml:link is not 
going to be supported in the proposed revision. Another consequence is 
that the various content models in atom such as atom:title, 
atom:summary, atom:content, etc. cannot be rendered meaningfully if 
their contents are anything other than text.

I was very hopeful today when I started investigating creating a simple 
browser + XForms based APP client, but quickly realized that without 
support for xs:complexContent, I would end up working around the 
standard that I might as well wait for the issues to be resolved in the 
Forms WG.

Anyone have more positive experience with XForms for APP? I'd surely 
love to know.

....Nikunj

Received on Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:02:02 UTC