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Xforms are such a tease

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:10 pm
by brian183
ARGH!!

I'm facing a creation of a complicated multi-section form that requires various validation and it seems like Xforms could make this creation process sooo much easier on me. I have never programmed a complicated form like this before plus I've never tried implementing an xml solution like this (although im familiar with xml). It just seems like Xforms would work out so well for this situation but it's not supported by IE6 (and our users won't bother installing plugins). I'm looking at xform server-side processors that basically convert xform into xhtml (ie. chiba) but doesn't that require an application server too? I'm just really unfamiliar with what it takes to convert an xform to something the browser can use.

The idea of sending a xml document from the server to the browser with all the validation done client-side and data sent back in XML or POST data is awesome in my eyes. I'm going to do more research in this chiba software but if anyone can help me out with commercial industry quality form generation and validation would help me out sooo much.

thanx!

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:16 pm
by Weirdan