On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Andrew Welch
<andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
(...)
I've read that (and most of the other articles since xml.com's
rejuvination) but I don't really have time to look into XForms at the
moment...
Is it the next big thing?
I followed XForms and even implemented this kind of server-side XSLT +
client-side XForms framework around 2003, and maybe I'm wrong because
I did not check it lately, but my feeling is that XForms _was_ the
next big thing until... nothing.
At that time, back in 2003, I was convinced that Javascript was really
wrong because of unequal support by browsers, and XForms was the way
to go to discuss natively in XML with the server.
I have been disappointed by XForms for its lack of flexibility to
implement extensions beyond basic use cases. What I would have liked
is the capability to embed XSLT inside XForms actions to do
processings beyond "insert, delete and setindex".
Today I would use Javascript + XMLHttpRequest or even JSON and it is
definitely up to the task.
Cheers,
Eric Bréchemier
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