[Xsltforms-support] Xsltforms with exist-db: issue solved by v.662

[Ralph C. <ra...@ra...>]

Hi all, a note on an issue and resolution I've had over the last 24
hours, just for people's info (I know Alain was looking at it earlier as
he replied to my Stackoverflow question - I thought it wasn't an
XSLTforms issue at the time, but it turns out it sort of is...)

I've been operating in an exist-db environment that I have no control of
(it's hosted on a Docker and administered - very helpfully - by a
university IT department). I was having problems with the v.652
downloaded from sourceforge and was pointed towards the newer stuff
going on Alain's Git. For the last few months I have been running v.661
(without problem). However, following an upgrade to my browser
yesterday, Chrome stopped rendering all the forms (just white-screen,
stalling at the xsl load). It also turned out that Edge and Firefox
(both of which had previously worked) had the same behaviour.

I know that the upgrade was the main cause, because my laptop (which
hadn't updated) continued to render the forms until this morning.
However, I suspected the issue lay more with exist-db than with
xsltforms directly, but to make sure I covered all bases I upgraded all
the docs to v.662. Instantly everything started working again. 

I'm not familiar enough with the changes between versions to know what
has changed and why it suddenly made such a difference, but hopefully
this will help some others.

Cheers
Ralph