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London XForms User Group:XForms and Ajax

XForms and Ajax
Mark Birbeck delivers a seminar on XForms and AJAX. Mark guides the viewers through the architecture behind the classes of some XForm processors and broadly overviews the implications of using this W3C specification for Web 2.0 development. Mark describes XForms as a generalisation of “patterns” found during AJAX (form) development – implying that CSS, JavaScript and AJAX techniques are metaphorically like the “assembly language” of XForms. He explains the notion of a “pattern” as mark-up which is capable of declaratively expressing a great amount of functionality – for example, capturing an user-triggered event and reacting upon it. The three noticeable patterns of typical AJAX development that XForms encapsulates are the display of tooltip or general messages, submission of data (to a server) and the display or hiding of information in the document. Using a number of demonstrations, Mark showcases the use of XForms to substitute for the lengthy forms found in many websites today. With a relatively small amount of mark up, Mark implemented AJAX patterns such user-triggers and form-validation via mark-up attributes whilst keeping the code well organised and structured. Although XForms is currently not widely adopted in modern browsers, plug-ins and extensions are available to implement the XForms data processing model meaning that in many cases, JavaScript may not be even be required to put into practice the functionalities that lay in legacy forms. Alternatively, XForms can be generated by server-side platforms (such as Orbeon) and then transformed to legacy XHTML forms before being sent to the browser.

ABOUT MARK BIRBECK

Mark is managing director of Backplane Ltd. He works on standards and applications at the juncture of rich user interfaces and the Semantic Web.
More about Mark Birbeck

PODCAST XFORMS AND AJAX

FLEX, FLASH & ADOBE AIR COURSES

	ADOBE AIR INTRO
	ADOBE FLEX FOR FLASH DEVELOPERS
	ADOBE FLEX INTRO
	OBJECT-ORIENTED ACTIONSCRIPT - ADVANCED
	OBJECT-ORIENTED ACTIONSCRIPT - BEGINNERS

FLEX, FLASH & ADOBE AIR PODCASTS

	Re-writing Java classes in Scala - and m Colin Howe : 8th Feb 2010
	XForms Mark Birbeck : 19th Oct 2009
	XForms and the next generation of web ap Mark Birbeck : 22nd Sep 2009
	Dan Lehner - UnLTD World : 29th May 2009
	Nick Booth - Help me Investiga : 29th May 2009
	Mozilla Labs : 29th May 2009
	Yoosk... : 29th May 2009
	Richard Pope - Straight Choice : 29th May 2009
	Dav Glass - YUI3 : 8th May 2009
	Ted Drake - Unlocking the Secr : 8th May 2009
	Christian Heilmann - Remixing : 8th May 2009
	Rasmus Lerdorf - Hacking with : 8th May 2009
	Ryan Kennedy - Yahoo! : 8th May 2009
	Mike McKenna - PHP and Internationa... : 8th May 2009
	Martin Barnes - Yahoo! GeoPlan : 8th May 2009

OTHER FLEX, FLASH & ADOBE AIR EVENTS

	Object-Oriented ActionScript - Beginners 1 DAY COURSE. Paris, Tuesday, March 30th
	Adobe Flex Intro 1 DAY COURSE. Paris, Tuesday, April 13th
	Adobe Flex for Flash Developers 1 DAY COURSE. Paris, Monday, April 19th
	Adobe AIR Intro 1 DAY COURSE. Paris, Monday, April 26th
	Object-Oriented ActionScript - Advanced 1 DAY COURSE. Paris, Monday, May 3rd
	Object-Oriented ActionScript - Beginners 1 DAY COURSE. Featuring Peter Elst London, Monday, June 7th
	Adobe Flex Intro 1 DAY COURSE. Featuring Peter Elst London, Monday, June 14th
	Adobe Flex for Flash Developers 1 DAY COURSE. Featuring Peter Elst London, Monday, June 21st