XForms tutorial part 5: The Restart

Due to popular demand, it is time to reevaluate the value of XForms and make a new fresh start with the tutorials. I have to be honest about the first four parts... Not only are they a bit lengthy and unfocused... I also lost the source files and examples when my hard drive crashed and I did not make a backup.

I was a bit reluctant to rewrite the samples because many of them are outdated. But taking baby steps, I can reproduce the interesting parts in a way that fits the year 2008! This means the Mozilla XForms plugin is replaced by server side solutions like Chiba and Orbeon. It means shorter posts covering one clear subject. And last but not least: it means covering the right subject under the appropriate title.

As you might have read in the early parts, to learn XForms, you need to know more technologies than just XForms. So from this point on, you'll find short tutorials on:

• XML and namespaces
• XPath
• XML Schema
• XML Events
• XSLT
• XML Pipelines
• XQuery
• and maybe if there is some time left... XForms!

To start keeping promises, I won't make this post too long: please do subscribe to the Atom feed of this Weblog and keep an eye out for upcoming posts!

Tags: XForms | XPath | XML