XML Web Forms

[mgoretti]

Hello,

I'm trying to develope a Web-based solution that will use only XML / XSL(T), if possible (!), to create and edit XML documents through Web forms.

Is there a ""simple""-native way to do it (e.g. without using JSP, servlet, DOM, XUpdate)? I would like to be indipendent from the XML documents (i.e. forms) that end-users will upload on the system...

I'm reading something about the W3C standard called XForms but I don't if it suites the desired final behavior...
Related to this, is XForms supported by Internet Explorer and Mozilla?

Thanks in advance
Mario

 

[JontyMC]

XForms is exactly what you want, and its the future of web-forms. The only thing stopping it doing so is lack of good browser support. It might take a little while to learn the concept and basics, but its well worth it and you'll see just how rubbish HTML forms are.

I'd recommend the following:

Formsplayer:

http://www.formsplayer.com/

Novell plugin for IE:

http://developer.novell.com/xforms/

There's also a plugin for firefox, but I havent tried this.

Any questions on implementation, just ask.

Jon

"I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.

 

[mgoretti]

Thank you Jon.

I think that XForms could be the right way.
I'm testing the features of Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS) "an open source J2EE-based platform for XML-centric web applications". It seems to work fine.

Bye,
Mario