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Using Subforms with betterFORM
This article gives a short introduction to using subforms with betterFORM. Before going into details it should be clarifed what is meant when talking about subforms. Subforms are complete...
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Why client-side XForms is not enough
About 10 years after the first version of HTML the W3C felt is was about time to create a sucessor of the HTML forms. XForms as a new open standard was born. Back then it was not surprising that XForms...
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What’s new in betterFORM limegreen
Release Notes These are the release notes for betterFORM limeGreen (4.0). New features Event Log In previous versions of betterFORM event logging was available on the Firebug console (or its...
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XForms patterns – the submission chain
Motivation: execute a submission only if another submission succeeds. One of the most powerful features of XForms is the submission module. It is not comparable to the simple submission of a HTML form....
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News from the editor
A while back we wrote about a new XForms editor as part of our post ‘What’s new in betterFORM limeGreen’. Now it’s about time for an update as we have a first working beta running and it’s ready for...
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000...
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betterFORM limeGreen 4.0 and 4.1 Release
Release Notes for betterFORM limeGreen 4.1 Changes Installer The targets of the installer have been renamed to represent the recent name changes on the betterForm website: betterFORM XRX has become...
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XForms model to model communication
XForms has a MVC architecture and this it what makes it so powerful when it comes to build complex applications that reach far beyond a few fields with validation. But as applications grow there...
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Long standing issue with Subform embedding fixed
There was a long standing issue with embeddng of subforms when triggered by xforms model actions like xforms-model-construct-done and xforms-ready. This has been fixed now in the development branch of...
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ref everywhere!
Since: betterFORM 5.0rc1 - buildNumber:11541 A while back the XForms Working Group proposed to use @ref Attribute everywhere in XForms and replace all usages of @nodeset. We have followed this proposal...
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eXist Solutions releases LTS version of eXistdb
New eXistdb distribution addresses the needs of professional users Rüsselsheim, Germany – January 27, 2014 eXist Solutions today announced eXist LTS, a long-term support version of the well-know NoSQL...
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betterFORM 5 final released
We are happy to announce the final release of betterFORM 5. Version 5 brings hundreds of improvements over Version 4 (limegreen) and has extensively tested and heavily used in real world applications...
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Moving forward – betterFORM 6 aka ‘Fore’ is born
After just releasing betterFORM 5 it’s time to move on and plan for the next step. The main focus of Fore will be to sort out the good, bad and ugly from the W3C XForms standard and move the good parts...
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