XForms Evening Sessions at XML 2007

Seven presentations on XForms are scheduled for Monday, December 03,
2007 at the XML 2007 Conference and Exposition in Boston, Massachusetts,
USA. W3C XForms is "a markup language that addresses the modern needs
of electronic forms. It is based on XML and can deliver the collected
values as an XML document. It addresses questions of authorability,
usability, accessibility, device independence, internationalization,
integration into different host languages, and reducing the need for
scripting." This event brings together a number of the leaders in the
XForms community to present the business value of XForms, including
design experience, end-to-end solution development, case studies and
driving business value through Web 2.0 integration. The session
culminates in a keynote address by Elliotte Rusty Harold, who offers
his vision and advice on the future of XForms. Sessions include: (1)
John Boyer, "Seeing is Believing: Intuitive Visual XForms Design" --
We will demonstrate that XForms can offer an order of magnitude
simplification to the design and development of business applications.
(2) Dan McCreary, "The Pure Declarative Approach: XForms in Real Estate
Forms Case Study" -- We use almost no Java or JavaScript and use mostly
on XML Schemas to capture requirements, XML transforms to transform
requirements into XForms, native XML databases to store the data,
Schematron to store business rule checks, and XQuery for manipulatio
n and reporting of XML datasets. (3) Doug Tidwell, "Creating a Custom
Editor for Everything" -- We'll demonstrate how to use XForms to
create a custom editor for an XML vocabulary, using Service Component
Architecture (SCA) as an example. (4) Erik Bruchez, "XForms and the
eXist XML database: a Perfect Couple" -- We show how the XForms 1.1
submission module, which supports REST, can be used to perform CRUD
operations in eXist; we also look at how XForms can directly submit
XML database queries using the powerful XQuery 1.0 language implemented
by eXist. (5) Mark Birbeck, "XForms, XHTML, and RDFa for Internet-Facing
Applications" -- The applications include desktop widgets and gadgets,
pure Ajax browser applications, web applications that use browser
plug-ins such as formsPlayer, and complete standalone desktop
applications, running independently of a browser. (6) Charles Wiecha,
"Composition and Choreography of Web Components in XForms" -- We
propose a programming model for composing and controlling Web 2.0
documents based on the Model-View-Controller design of XForms. (7)
Elliotte Rusty Harold, "How XForms Can Win" (Keynote). More Information See also XML and Forms Click Here