Re: [Exist-open] Modern Alternatives to XForms?

[Paolo Di P. <pao...@gm...>]

I’m an old  forms developer, having used Chiba and then betterform at the
beginning of Y2000.
It’s sad to say that xforms didn’t have the acceptance from the community
as we all hoped in those days.

I think that, apart from the commercial solution today on the market, all
of that referring to the original approach, there is the need of a
completely new approach   ‘Mobile first’, where the from-end implementation
should keep in count the development of an approach for a small device.

It’s not a problem of being responsive: it’s not enough: there should be
the need to integrate something similar to react-native.

Maybe there should. Be the need for a completely new xforms spe by the W3C,
integrating also with the new versions of ecmascript and it’s functional
approach.

This is my personal opinion and a suggestion for W3C.

Paolo

Il giorno dom 28 mar 2021 alle 19:54 Gary Kopp <ge...@ru...> ha
scritto:

> In a separate thread I enquired about the current approaches to using
> XForms with eXist. Finian gave me an extremely helpful response explaining
> how to use Orbeon Forms community edition, which I’m seriously considering.
> He ended his reply with:
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> “Having said all of that, if I were starting from scratch I would consider
> the alternatives to XForms. Although I have found eXist/XForms very
> flexible and easy to use, it seems to me to be something of an edge-case
> these days. I'm sure people here would have ideas as to more modern
> technologies.”
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> For me, that begs the question – what are some recommended modern
> alternatives to XForms? A Google search returned less than helpful lists of
> commercial solutions. What I’m looking for is open source solutions that
> are relatively easy to integrate with eXist and produce UIs with as little
> effort as possible.
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> Your suggestions would be appreciated!
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> --Gary Kopp
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