Form Builder Functionality

>
> Hi all, I'm using orbeon forms to see if it fits the requirements  
> of my
> company.
> I have used the form builder to create some simple forms and it  
> seems that
> this functionality doesn't create xml and xhtml files but all the  
> structures
> are saved and stored in /WEB-INF/exist-data/ binary files. Is it  
> true? Am I
> doing something wrong?
> Thanks in advance
> Roberto
>
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> Hi Roberto,
>
> The binary files in the exist-data/ directory are the storage format
> of the XML database.  The data is accessible through the eXist REST  
> API.
> Point your browser to
> http://my-domain/orbeon/exist/rest/db/
> for example, depending on the directory you deployed to.  You
> should see a list of collections and documents.  So, data is
> stored as XML documents.
>
> However, it is true that they are not xhtml documents, which I expect
> would be more problematic to build a round-trip editor for -- they  
> must
> be run in the form-runner.
>
> --Hank
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 8:32 AM, [hidden email] wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all, I'm using orbeon forms to see if it fits the requirements  
>> of my
>> company.
>> I have used the form builder to create some simple forms and it  
>> seems that
>> this functionality doesn't create xml and xhtml files but all the  
>> structures
>> are saved and stored in /WEB-INF/exist-data/ binary files. Is it  
>> true? Am I
>> doing something wrong?
>> Thanks in advance
>> Roberto
>>
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> Hank Ratzesberger
> NEES@UCSB
> Institute for Crustal Studies,
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> 805-893-8042
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> Actually I must correct you Hank, Form Builder does produce XHTML
> +XForms documents, with a few custom elements starting with "fr:",  
> like fr:section, fr:grid, etc. Those are processed within Form  
> Runner using an XSLT transformation.
>
> What is correct is that the forms are not XHTML you can directly  
> load into a browser.
>
> -Erik
>
> On Nov 26, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Hank Ratzesberger wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Roberto,
>>
>> The binary files in the exist-data/ directory are the storage format
>> of the XML database.  The data is accessible through the eXist  
>> REST API.
>> Point your browser to
>> http://my-domain/orbeon/exist/rest/db/
>> for example, depending on the directory you deployed to.  You
>> should see a list of collections and documents.  So, data is
>> stored as XML documents.
>>
>> However, it is true that they are not xhtml documents, which I expect
>> would be more problematic to build a round-trip editor for -- they  
>> must
>> be run in the form-runner.
>>
>> --Hank
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2008, at 8:32 AM, [hidden email] wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all, I'm using orbeon forms to see if it fits the requirements  
>>> of my
>>> company.
>>> I have used the form builder to create some simple forms and it  
>>> seems that
>>> this functionality doesn't create xml and xhtml files but all the  
>>> structures
>>> are saved and stored in /WEB-INF/exist-data/ binary files. Is it  
>>> true? Am I
>>> doing something wrong?
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Roberto
>>>
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>>
>> Hank Ratzesberger
>> NEES@UCSB
>> Institute for Crustal Studies,
>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>> 805-893-8042
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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