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James Hiebert

Can one use XFDL Forms with Orbeon?

ops-users:

I'm wondering if anyone on the list has any experience with (and advice for)
using Orbeon with XForms generated IBM's Forms Designer. I'm working on a
project where we would like to use the Orbeon Forms server. However, for
creating forms, the team would like a product with a little more polish than
Orbeon Form Builder has at this time (though we would like to keep our
options open for using it in the future).

IBM's Forms Designer gives us an XFDL document (I'm a little unclear on
whether the document follows published standards) contain our original
schema as the xforms model and then all of the layout info for the form.

Does anyone have a sense for what would be involved in translating the
resulting XFDL document into something that would be usable with Orbeon?

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

~JMH

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Can one use XFDL Forms with Orbeon?

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James,

Some work has been done to write XSLT that transforms XFDL into XHTML
+XForms, which you can run inside Orbeon Forms. If you do a search on
this list archive, you will find messages on the subject with XSLT
attached.

I think the approach is realistic, even if, most likely, it will
require you to do some more work to adapt and improve the existing
stylesheet.

Alex

On Dec 10, 2008, at 3:48 PM, James Hiebert <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> ops-users:
>
> I'm wondering if anyone on the list has any experience with (and
> advice for)
> using Orbeon with XForms generated IBM's Forms Designer. I'm
> working on a
> project where we would like to use the Orbeon Forms server.
> However, for
> creating forms, the team would like a product with a little more
> polish than
> Orbeon Form Builder has at this time (though we would like to keep our
> options open for using it in the future).
>
> IBM's Forms Designer gives us an XFDL document (I'm a little unclear
> on
> whether the document follows published standards) contain our original
> schema as the xforms model and then all of the layout info for the
> form.
>
> Does anyone have a sense for what would be involved in translating the
> resulting XFDL document into something that would be usable with
> Orbeon?
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated.
>
> ~JMH
>
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> version:2.1
> fn:James Hiebert
> n:Hiebert;James;;;
> email;internet:[hidden email]
> title:Physical Scientist
> org:NOAA;Office of Coast Survey;Hydrographic Systems and Technology
> Program
> uid:0f82097548c0322f513784d47228638b
> rev:2008-10-28T15\:40\:55Z
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