XSLTForms

Welcome to the XSLTForms Wikibook! XSLTForms is an open source client-side implementation of XForms which is a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation for creating web forms and web applications. XSLTForms is developed by Alain Couthures (of agenceXML at Bordeaux, France). Introduction /Introduction/ - About this book and overview of the technology. /Background/ - A brief history and motivation for the XSLTForms project. /Benefits/ - Why use XSLTForms? /Applications/ - Who use XSLTForms? /Naming Conventions/ - Naming standards used throughout this book. Getting Started These pages are for people who are just getting started. /Installing and Testing/ - How to install XSLTForms. Although XSLTForms can be used without any server processing, you can find here information specific to your Web Server Technology: /Generic HTTP Server/ - Works for any WebServer. /ASP.NET/ - Inserting XForms into Asp.Net WebForms. /eXist-db/ - Using XSLTForms with eXist-db /HelloWorld/ - A simple test to see if XSLTForms is installed correctly. Some Common Problems. /Instance Loading/ - Errors messages related to instances appears when loading a Form /Form not correctly rendered/ - Forms not correctly shown in browsers /Triggers not working/ - Form is correctly displayed, but submit and trigger buttons don't work Further topics These pages discuss other topics of interest to XSLTForms users /CSS/ - Styling XForms controls using Cascading Style Sheets. Using TinyMCE as mixed-content editor Performance Status XSLTForms is an XForms 1.1 implementation with some XForms 2.0 features, and a number of implementation-specific extensions to the language. The coverage of 1.1, the portions of 2.0 that have been implemented, and the implementation-specific extensions are discussed separately below. XForms 1.1 coverage /XForms 1.1/ XForms 2.0 coverage /XForms 2.0/ XForms 2.0 elements and attributes The show attribute The xf:dialog, xf:show, and xf:hide elements The xf:var element XForms 2.0 functions XPath 2.0 and XForms 2.0 functions The serialize() function Implementation-specific extensions /XSLTForms only Extensions/ Configuration: XSLT-parameters: baseuri, xsltforms_caller, xsltforms_config, xsltforms_debug, xsltforms_lang Configurations-template file config_LANG.xsl Processing-Instructions: <?xsltforms-options?>, <?css-conversion?> New Elements <xf:component> <xf:include> (load-time file inclusion) <xf:script> <xf:setNode> (parse XML-serialization string and create nodes) <xf:setselection> <xf:split> <xf:tree> <xf:unload> <xf:wrap> New Functions: is-valid() itext() (from JavaRosa) transform() Miscellaneous functions User-Defined Functions Arithmetic expressions Objects in the javascript: pseudo-URL in xf:load/xf:resource@value Documentation for contributors Information for contributors to the XSLTForms codebase or to this book. Notes for Contributing Code XSLTForms/XSLT 1.0 stylesheet/ - Templates. /Javascript/ - Classes and Functions. Contributing to this wikibook Markup languages X 25% __NOTOC__