Posted by Jency Chackummoottil on
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/XFDL-Integration-tp32484p32509.html


Erik,

I am attaching an XFDL along with the screen shot of the form (ie, how
the form looks like when we run it using IBM Workplace Forms viewer).
This XFDL has XForms controls for which it has non-xforms properties
such as item location, datatype, etc. I need to convert this XFDL to
XForms so that when I run it in Orbeon, I should get the same look and
feel (with proper datatype, alignment and size of controls, background
color etc). I have written an XSL to transform this, but it involves
much coding and I could not do transformation for all the properties.
Please find the attached XFDL and the screenshot of the form which uses
this XFDL.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Jency

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Bruchez [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Erik Bruchez
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:01 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [ops-users] XFDL Integration

Jency,

As you noticed Orbeon Forms does not support XFDL, or even converting
from XFDL to XHTML, out of the box.

The big question to me is not so much whether to use XSLT or not to
perform the conversion: there is a good chance that using XSLT,
especially 2.0, will give you all the flexibility you need to perform
the conversion.

But not knowing XFDL well, I can't tell you whether it is possible to do

a perfect conversion from XFDL + XForms to XHTML + XForms, what are the
trade-offs, etc.

If you could send to the list a short but telling example of a very
specific issue you are encountering, this could help.

(And if you have trouble with this conversion and can't manage to go
forward, remember that Orbeon provides support services and that we
would be happy to help you.)

-Erik

Jency Chackummoottil wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> I'm using IBM Workplace Forms Designer tool to create some eForms.
> Workplace Forms are written in an XML syntax called XFDL (eXtensible
> Forms Description Language), and support the XForms standard. Ie,
> certain controls are written in xforms. My application is in orbeon. I

> need to convert this XFDL to XHTML + XForms so that I could run
directly
> in Orbeon. Now I have written an xpl which does an xsl transform to
the
> input XFDL so that only the required xforms tag are taken from the
xfdl
> and create an xhtml using those tags. But this involves a bit
> complication, because XFDL has not only xforms controls, but also some

> tags like itemlocation, datatype etc too which does not have the
xforms
> namespace. So I feel writing an xsl transform to convert the whole
XFDL
> to XForms is complicated.
>
>  
>
> Is there some way to do the same? Would you please provide me the
sample
> code too since I'm new to Orbeon.
>
>  
>
> Thanks
>
> Jency

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