Re: [Xsltforms-support] XSLTForms enhancements?

[Alain C. <ala...@ag...>]

Hello Habs,

A pragmatic approach is important: XForms recommendation cannot be seen 
as a definitive solution for everything. It is important to know what is 
missing in it, thanks to authors feedback.

Comparing to Orbeon, XSLTForms has much less extensions... Each of them 
have been analyzed in details in recommendation spirit.

The main point is how to standardize approaches. Contributions are 
welcome in XForms Users Community Group 
(https://www.w3.org/community/xformsusers/)!

Regards,

Alain

Le 10/04/2016 22:14, bc...@sh... a écrit :
> Hello everyone
>
> I've been reading these enhancement suggestions (and others) and I 
> realise that the XForms specification allows for extensions and leaves 
> things open for implementation choices in some areas.
>
> My concern -- and I am saying the following (and perhaps with no great 
> qualification to do so) without insinuation that XSLTForms is going 
> this way -- is to ask that careful consideration be paid to sticking 
> to XForms published standards/specification and to watch carefully 
> that the implementation in XSLTForms does not grow into some 
> application full of non-standard and/or deviated approaches to meet a 
> perceived shortcoming.
>
> What are your views ?
>
> Regards
> Habs
>
> On 10 April 2016 at 20:45, Alain Couthures 
> <ala...@ag... <mailto:ala...@ag...>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Mats,
>
>>     - Allowing XSLTForms to be run as Chrome Apps, with file
>>     save/open functionality etc.
>     Could you please write some documentation about how you succeeded?
>     It might be added in XSLTForms Wikibook, for example.
>>     - Embedding SaxonCE library so that transform() function can run
>>     XSLT2 transforms
>     Have you modified the transform() function so that it is looking
>     at the version of the stylesheet? Could this better be considered
>     as a global option to be added in config files?
>>     - Adding @async attribute to xf:setvalue/xf:insert elements for
>>     non-blocking evaluation of long running XPath expressions in Web
>>     Workers
>     Web Workers are not available in old browsers but all recent ones
>     do now! I did not try to use them yet (priorities...) and I still
>     wonder how they can access the XML DOM in the main page: is it a
>     problem??
>>     - Adding validate-with-xml-schema() function, using xmllint library
>     Is it that Chrome Apps allow you to link C libraries?
>>     - Adding validate-with-schematron() function, using SaxonCE.
>>     Useful for doing more advanced form validations using SVRL.
>     Is it an XPath function? When are you calling it? Before
>     submission? XForms is based on validation at node level whenever a
>     value has been modified: do you think that it is also compatible
>     with SVRL?
>>     - Adding parse-xml() function, believe replacing need for xf:setnode
>     xf:setvalue is there to set a value not to import nodes... That's
>     why I added xf:setnode with the serialized XML string as
>     parameter. In what context do you use parse-xml()? Which
>     document/instance owns the resulting nodes?
>>
>>     Would be glad to contribute these as well as some other
>>     extensions and performance optimizations.
>>
>     Will be glad to look at them in details!! Is it your intent to
>     publish source files independently or to fork the repository?
>
>     Thanks!
>
>     Alain
>
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