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Does anyone use XForms in their web applications?

A few years ago, we started playing with XForms from W3C for a web application that required hundreds of custom forms.

As they are currently not supported by major browsers, what parsers / tools do you use today in your projects?

I really don't need plugins - it should be the server side that emulates XForms.

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We use XForms to create user interfaces for SOAP-based web services. We have currently installed the Chiba XForms engine ( http://chiba.sourceforge.net/ ), but Orbeon ( http://www.orbeon.com/ ) actually seems more mature. Both are server-side mechanisms that convert XForms to HTML on the fly. Validation is done on the server side using AJAX. This makes rather high demands on the server, so I would not bet on these engines when creating sites with heavy traffic. Alternatives are well documented on the XForms Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XForms .

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You can also convert XForms to XHTML + Javascript only with XSLT conversion, so you can do this on the client side without a plug-in. Take a look at http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms/ . This is an open source project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsltforms

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As I understand it, XForms naturally matches the current taste of REST-based architectures, while eliminating most of the basic problems with complex form design in a rather neat way.

It is sad that people basically forgot about it :(

However, there are Javascript-based xforms engines, such as Ubiquity , that would help get cross-browser support for xforms. And the recent development of the high-performance Javascript VM will provide such engines with excellent performance.

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I do not use them and, since they are not supported by any major browsers, I doubt that anyone else will use them very often.

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