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

1. Introduction - About this book and overview of the technology.
2. Background - A brief history and motivation for the XSLTForms project.
3. Benefits - Why use XSLTForms?
4. Applications - Who use XSLTForms?
5. Naming Conventions - Naming standards used throughout this book.

Getting Started

These pages are for people who are just getting started.

1. 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
2. HelloWorld - A simple test to see if XSLTForms is installed correctly.
3. 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

1. CSS - Styling XForms controls using Cascading Style Sheets.
2. Using TinyMCE as mixed-content editor
3. 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

1. XForms 1.1

XForms 2.0 coverage

1. XForms 2.0
2. XForms 2.0 elements and attributes
   • The show attribute
   • The xf:dialog, xf:show, and xf:hide elements
   • The xf:var element
3. XForms 2.0 functions
   • XPath 2.0 and XForms 2.0 functions
   • The serialize() function

Implementation-specific extensions

1. XSLTForms only Extensions
2. Configuration:
   • XSLT-parameters: baseuri, xsltforms_caller, xsltforms_config, xsltforms_debug, xsltforms_lang
   • Configurations-template file config_LANG.xsl
   • Processing-Instructions: <?xsltforms-options?>, <?css-conversion?>
3. 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>
4. New Functions:
   • is-valid()
   • itext() (from JavaRosa)
   • transform()
   • Miscellaneous functions
5. User-Defined Functions
6. Arithmetic expressions
7. 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.

1. Notes for Contributing Code
2. XSLTForms/XSLT 1.0 stylesheet/ - Templates.
3. Javascript - Classes and Functions.
4. Contributing to this wikibook