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- XForms and Ruby on Rails at the Doctor's Office, Part 1: Setting up IBM DB2 9 pureXML by Michael Galpin - [Clicks: 36]
This is the first article in a four-part series about using XForms, IBM DB2 pureXML, and Ruby together to more easily create Web applications. In this series you will develop a hypothetical application for managing patient information at a doctor's office. You will get a taste of the individual strengths of each technology, but you will also see how to integrate them together. In this first part of the series, you will examine how XForms, DB2 pureXML, and Ruby on Rails can all help more rapidly build XML-centric Web applications.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsruby1/index.html - Dec, 2007 - The ROI of XForms by Dan McCreary - [Clicks: 26]
This article examines several methods of calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) of adopting enterprise-wide XForms standards. Explore ROI analysis from several different viewpoints, including the standards perspective and issues around vendor lock-in avoidance strategies. Learn about three ROI models for an enterprise XForms migration: The use of vendor knowledge to convert standard forms to a rich Web-client-based XForms application; an investment and savings calculation over a three-year period; and how XForms can form a synergistic relationship with XML-centric technologies such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Business Process Management (BPM). This article concludes with a discussion on how to overcome common objections to an XForms initiative.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/x-xformsroi/index.html - Dec, 2007 - Use an XForms document as a custom XML editor by Doug Tidwell - [Clicks: 35]
In a recent article we looked at XSLT 2.0 functions that allowed us to generate an attractive HTML table that represented the results of an XML tournament (a bracket). What we didn't address in that article is how to fill in the winners and losers for that XML tournament. In this article, we'll revisit our XML tournament and create an XForms document that lets us fill in the tournament results without an angle bracket in sight. The result is an attractive editor for our bracket document type, complete with Ajax-like effects. Best of all, our use of XForms means the custom editor is built with declarative markup and is based on the data structures in the XML document itself.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsxslt/index.html - Nov, 2007 - Extending XForms to enable rich text editing by Steve K Speicher, Andy Smith - [Clicks: 15]
The virtual world of Web-based rich-text editing today includes blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and more. Learn how to extend the standard XForms set of controls to provide this rich text editing.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsrte/index.html - Oct, 2007 - XForms Thick Clients by Jack Cox - [Clicks: 20]
Jack Cox explains an approach to building XForms client applications that work in a disconnected environment.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/10/17/xforms-thick-clients.html - Oct, 2007 - Integrate XForms with the Google Web Toolkit, Part 4: Creating interactive forms with GWT and XForms by Michael Galpin - [Clicks: 63]
This four-part series demonstrates how to use the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and XForms together to create a dynamic Web application. Part 1 looks at the JavaScript underpinnings of each technology. Part 2 shows how to use those JavaScript underpinnings to start mixing the two technologies together to build the rock star application. Part 3 refactors the application to use XForms and GWT together. In this concluding part, you'll continue to refactor and improve your rock star application.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/x-xformsgwt4/index.html - Oct, 2007 - Integrate XForms with the Google Web Toolkit, Part 3: Using GWT to create XForms by Michael Galpin - [Clicks: 29]
This four-part series demonstrates how to use the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and XForms together to create a dynamic Web application. Part 1 looked at the two technologies and how both had JavaScript underpinnings. Part 2 shows how to create a small application with two pages. One page uses GWT to show a list of artists managed by a record company. The second page uses XForms to display the albums recorded by a particular artist. Part 3 uses GWT and XForms on the same page. See how to take advantage of each technology's bindings to JavaScript by using JavaScript to achieve interactivity between GWT and XForms.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/x-xformsgwt3.html - Oct, 2007 - Write XForms that work across browsers by Steve K Speicher - [Clicks: 38]
Learn how XHTML and XForms documents should be hosted and written to ensure that your end users have the best experience with your XForms-based applications.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-xformsxbrowser.html - Oct, 2007 - Integrate XForms with the Google Web Toolkit, Part 2: Creating an artist and album management form by Michael Galpin - [Clicks: 21]
This four-part series demonstrates how to use the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and XForms together to create a dynamic Web application. Part 1 looked at the JavaScript underpinnings of each technology. Part 2 shows you how to use those JavaScript underpinnings to start mixing the two technologies together to build the rock star application.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/x-xformsgwt2/index.html - Sep, 2007 - Integrate XForms with the Google Web Toolkit, Part 1: Introducing GWT's JavaScript Native Interface by Michael Galpin - [Clicks: 52]
This four-part series demonstrates how to use the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and XForms together to create a dynamic Web application. Part 1 starts with a bottom-up approach to the problem of using GWT and XForms together. It takes a look at some of the underpinnings of each technology, examining the common ground between them that will allow for their peaceful coexistence. This will lay the foundation for developing a Web application that uses both GWT and XForms together.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/x-xformsgwt1/index.html - Sep, 2007 - Use PHP to create XForms, Part 2: Using the PHP XForms library to create useful XForms by Tyler Anderson - [Clicks: 19]
This two-part article seriess is designed to get PHP developers up to speed in leveraging Web 2.0 XForms forms for their PHP forms development so that they can finally put their outdated Web 1.0 HTML forms away. In Part 1, you created the PHP XForms library. In this article, Part 2, you will enhance the library to include some error checking and convenience functions to help make using the library more manageable, and lastly you'll demo the library by creating a proof of concept XForm.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsphp2/index.html - Sep, 2007 - Use PHP to create XForms, Part 1: Creating a PHP XForms library by Tyler Anderson - [Clicks: 18]
This two-part article series is designed to get PHP developers up to speed in leveraging Web 2.0 XForms forms for their PHP forms development so that they can finally put their outdated Web 1.0 HTML forms away. This will be accomplished by creating a library of functions that generate XForms elements when called upon. In this article, Part 1 of a two-part series, developers will create the XForms library using PHP, allowing each function to take in parameters and output XForm elements.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsphp1/ - Aug, 2007 - XForms, XML Schema, and ROX by Kurt Cagle - [Clicks: 25]
Kurt Cagle describes ROX Server, a RESTful system for building XForms from an XML Schema and some other bits.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/08/16/xforms-xml-schema-and-rox.html - Aug, 2007 - XForms extensions to XPath by Elliotte Rusty Harold - [Clicks: 15]
XForms uses XML Path Language (XPath) as its basic function and evaluation language. This is the same XPath used in Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). In addition to familiar functions like count and substring, XForms introduces a number of useful extension functions to XPath for numeric, date, and XForms-specific operations including if, avg, min, max, now, days-from-date, month, and instance.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsextensions/index.html - Aug, 2007 - Make your life easier with the XML Schema Standard Type Library by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 6]
XML validation enables you to create complex rules that define acceptable data. But they're no good to anybody unless you use them. In this tip, you learn to use the XML Schema Standard Type Library to simplify the process of requiring formatted data such as e-mail addresses and telephone numbers.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipxsslt/index.html - Jul, 2007 - Use JavaScript to make your XForms more robust by Michael Galpin - [Clicks: 34]
Have you ever had an XForm where you clicked the Remove button until all the rows disappeared, and then tried to insert a row back? What happens? Nothing! That's what this article will show you how to solve using JavaScript. See how to replace the standard delete action with a smarter JavaScript function that is called by your trigger. Along the way you'll see how to cleverly use JavaScript to manipulate your model's data.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsjavascript/index.html - Jul, 2007 - Use XForms and Ajax to create an autosuggest form field by Michael Galpin - [Clicks: 26]
Web application development has been revolutionized by Ajax. What was once a new and flashy technology is now becoming ubiquitous. End users are coming to expect that certain interactions with a Web application will be done "with no refresh," in other words, using Ajax. The ubiquity of Ajax for users has not yet translated to client-side technologies. There are many Ajax frameworks out there that make it simpler to use Ajax, hiding some of the cross-browser issues, but building an Ajax-enabled Web application is still a non-trivial task, to say the least. XForms is a standardized technology that offers many benefits that are complimentary to Ajax. In this article you will see some of the benefits of using Ajax and XForms together by implementing an autosuggest field.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformssuggest/index.html - Jul, 2007 - Cool things you can do with XPath in XForms by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 30]
If you've done any work in XML, you're probably familiar with XPath, the expression language that enables you to select portions of an XML document. If you've worked with XForms, you're definitely familiar with it; you can't build an XForms form without it! But XPath enables you to do much more than just select a node for display on the page. This article shows you how XPath and XForms interact to enable you to create functionality you may not have considered, such as displaying a list of unique values in one easy step, or using XPath in conjunction with interface elements such as radio buttons or drop-down lists to control the data displayed, as opposed to just the data submitted. This article assumes that you are familiar with XML, XForms, and the basics of XPath. If you need a refresher, you can find links in the Resources to get you started.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsxpath/index.html - Jun, 2007 - Understanding XForms by Kurt A. Cagle - [Clicks: 39]
With XML-based technologies such as XForms, XQuery, and XSLT, it is possible to create complex multi-user applications, from interactive help systems to custom "game" applications in which multiple users can interact with at once. This article shows how to create you fairly simple scenario games.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsxadventure/index.html - Jun, 2007 - Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 6: Wrapping it up by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 25]
This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. This series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 6 of this six-part series takes a final review and lessons learned approach, making sure there are no gaps in the final application and looking at future possibilities.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsaccttool6/index.html - May, 2007 - Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 1: The making of X-Trapolate by Stony Yakovac - [Clicks: 49]
This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called "X-Trapolate." Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. This article, Part 1 of the series, provides an overview of the different forms and functionality that will be created in this series, examining some of the aspects of this type of tool you must consider when undertaking the design.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsaccttool1/index.html - Mar, 2007 - Use XForms to create your own Sudoku game, Part 2: Create the game by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 49]
It's no secret that Sudoku is one of the hottest new trends around. This number game can easily be played on a computer or on paper, and because you can easily analyze the data in a form using XPath, it would not be impractical for you to use XForms to create a form that enables you to play Sudoku. This two-article series shows you how to create a game client that requests new games from the server, detects legal and illegal moves and the end of the game, and saves the current game for later. It also shows you how to generate new games for the user to play. Part 2 looks at loading and saving games.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformssudoku2/index.html - Mar, 2007 - Use XForms to create a dynamic Web search by Stony Yakovac - [Clicks: 44]
The tight integration XForms has with XML makes it perfect for viewing the results of XML-based APIs. At the same time, it's powerful enough to create a dynamic interface that can react to changing conditions. This article explains how to use these capabilities by showing you how to create a dynamic search engine client that provides different options and shows different data depending on the search engine chosen.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformswebsearch/index.html - Mar, 2007 - Use XForms to create your own Sudoku game, Part 1: Create the game by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 50]
It's no secret that Sudoku is one of the hottest new trends around. This number game can easily be played on a computer or on paper, and because we can easily analyze the data in a form using XPath, it would not be impractical for us to use XForms to create a form that enables us to play Sudoku. This two-article series shows you how to create a game client that requests new games from the server, detects legal and illegal moves and the end of the game, and saves the current game for later. It also shows you how to generate new games for the user to play. In part one, we create the basic game client. This article assumes that you're familiar with the basics of XForms. For a refresher, see the Resources for links to content to get you started. The code has been written for and tested on the Mozilla Firefox XForms extensions, but the concepts apply to any implementation.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformssudoku1/index.html - Feb, 2007 - Creating an XForms-based logo generator by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 29]
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) provides an easy way to declaratively create an image using XML, and XForms provides an easy way to edit XML. In this article you will put the two together to create an XForms-based XVG editor for creating SVG images such as logos.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformslogogen/index.html - Feb, 2007 - XForms tip: Making a read-only control writeable by Tyler Anderson - [Clicks: 38]
At times it is crucial to programmatically control the writability of data in your XForms. For example, if you're browsing data in read-only mode (so modifications aren't made by accident), and then you need to update or add new data, the read-only mode of the same controls will need to become writeable. This tip shows how you can change the readonly property of controls programmatically.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstipreadwrite/index.html - Feb, 2007 - XForms tip: Reacting to the refreshing of the form by Tyler Anderson - [Clicks: 33]
As data changes in your XForms form it can be essential to know right away and do something with the new data, especially when your XForms get more advanced. This tip shows you how to hook such events right into JavaScript methods, thus allowing you to then use the data in many different ways.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstiprefresh/index.html - Feb, 2007 - XForms tip: Using extension functions with Firefox by Tyler Anderson - [Clicks: 41]
XForms with Firefox has extension functions that aid your development of JavaScript with XForms. These functions allow you to access your XForms instance data with ease, enabling you to do cool stuff with your XForms, including creating dynamic XForms code. The goal of this tip is to help you make the most of your XForms applications by introducing you to Firefox's extension functions.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstipextfunctions/index.html - Feb, 2007 - XForms tip: Using the incremental attribute to detect keystrokes by Tyler Anderson - [Clicks: 20]
One of the slickest application genres are those that update data as you type. XForms does this with finesse! Controls have the ability to send events after each keystroke entered within them using the incremental attribute. That way controls that need to change their data based on the data of a control that's changing incrementally can also update their data incrementally, effectively keeping what's viewed "on screen" in sync across the board. This tip shows you how to make the most of the incremental feature with sample XForms code.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstipincdetectkey/index.html - Feb, 2007 - XForms as an RSS reader/editor by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 31]
RSS, Atom, and other syndication strategies involve making XML data available for download. XForms, which is designed to view and edit XML, is the perfect environment for an XML editor and reader. This article explains how to create an XML reader and editor using XForms.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsrssreader/index.html - Jan, 2007 - XForms in Firefox by Elliotte Rusty Harold - [Clicks: 31]
Using the experimental Mozilla XForms extension, you can process XForms in your browser today. While not yet deployed widely enough for use on the public Internet, XForms may be suitable for some intranet applications. This article demonstrates basic XForms processing as currently supported by Firefox and the Mozilla XForms plug-in.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsfirefox/index.html - Jan, 2007 - XForms tip: Enabling cross-domain loading and sending in Firefox by Tyler Anderson - [Clicks: 23]
XForms with Firefox has a built-in security feature that inhibits users from "cross-domain" loading and sending of instance data. Just like pop-ups, you don't want this to happen by default unless you trust the Web site. You shouldn't have to worry about it since this security feature is on by default, but sometimes you'll want to be able to perform cross-domain loading and sending of instance data with certain Web sites. This tip will show you how.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstipcrossdomain/index.html - Jan, 2007 - XForms tip: Using accesskeys for greater accessibility by Tyler Anderson - [Clicks: 11]
XForms, the Web 2.0 of forms, could not possibly be Web 2.0 without providing accessibility features. I'm sure you've used the Alt key before, or accidentally typed it while typing up a document. The Alt key focuses in on the File tab at the top of most applications. XForms has similar accessibility capabilities that allow you to focus in on the exact text box you desire, all without having to touch the mouse. This tip shows you how to use this accessibility feature.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstipaccesskeys/index.html - Jan, 2007 - XForms tip: Call JavaScript from an XForms form by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 53]
Because XForms controls are part of a namespace separate from the HTML and page, you cannot use the usual methods for calling JavaScript in response to user events, such as the onclick handler. So what are you to do if you need to call JavaScript from an XForms form? This tip shows you how to do it.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstipcalljs/index.html - Jan, 2007 - XForms tip: Dynamically create controls with the repeat, select1, and itemset elements by Tyler Anderson - [Clicks: 60]
Forms can have lists of data, which are difficult to display using regular HTML forms. The select1 and itemset elements have a lot of flexibility and are very similar to the select or option tags in HTML. The repeat element really shows its power here in that you can have a list of lists of data, and so on. You'll see how slick it is to populate the data used by the forms using XML. Once you use these XForms controls and populate them using XML, you'll never want to go back to using HTML ever again!
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstipcontrols/index.html - Jan, 2007 - XForms tip: Use XForms to upload a file to PHP by Tyler Anderson - [Clicks: 30]
Uploading files is a fairly common task using HTML forms, but how do you do it in XForms, where the data gets stored as part of an XML document? This tip explains how to create an XForms form that enables the user to upload a file, and it explains how to create a PHP script that saves the file on the server once it arrives.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstipuploadphp/index.html - Jan, 2007 - XForms tip: Using setvalue by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 26]
XForms provides a lot of ways to set the information on a control, from instance data to bind elements and calculations. But sometimes you just want to set a value directly; this tip shows you how to use the setvalue element to do just that.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstipsetvalue/index.html - Jan, 2007 - XForms tip: Using calculations by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 23]
Part of the allure of XForms is the fact that it provides more of an opportunity to provide interactivity than regular HTML forms, or at least it provides an opportunity to provide that interactivity with much less hassle. One function that's fairly common in Web forms is the ability to perform a calculation based on data supplied by the user. In a traditional HTML form, this means creating a JavaScript script and checking for specific actions such as the user clicking on a button or leaving a particular field. Any of these actions can be prone to error based on different browser versions or rendering of the form in a nontraditional browser. Fortunately, XForms solves this problem by providing a standard way to include calculations in the functionality of your form.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformstipcalculations/index.html - Jan, 2007
- Using XForms with Mozilla by J. David Eisenberg - [Clicks: 43]
The XForms technology gives you many advantages over ordinary XHTML forms. The XForms technology separates your form's data and presentation and submits your data as XML. XForms-aware applications can validate your data as you type it and can also submit your data to different servers and even store it in files. This tutorial shows you how to use Mozilla to start working with XForms.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mozillaxforms/ - Jan, 2007
- Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 5: Developing liability management functionality by Tyler Anderson, Stony Yakovac - [Clicks: 28]
This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 5 of this six-part series demonstrates how to create a payables form for liability and payment, and a reports form to analyze billing data and statistics.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xformsaccttool5.html - May, 2007 - Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 4: More asset management and reporting by Nicholas Chase - [Clicks: 31]
This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 4 of this six-part series demonstrates how to pull together many of the techniques touched on in earlier installments using the example of the order review form and the asset management form, with special privileges for procurement users. It also introduces new techniques for handling real-world issues.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xformsaccttool4.html - Apr, 2007 - Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 3: Developing asset management functionality by Stony Yakovac - [Clicks: 23]
This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 3 of this six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with PHP and MySQL to create some tools for interacting with the data of day-to-day business. Budgeting and billing forms, which we'll build into X-Trapolate in this tutorial, demonstrate some powerful features of XForms, while also highlighting the boundary where XForms development becomes difficult.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xformsaccttool3.html - Apr, 2007 - Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 2: Logging in and accounts by Stony Yakovac - [Clicks: 17]
This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 2 of this six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with PHP and MySQL to create the basic "login," "registration," and "account management" functionality seen in many modern Web applications.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xformsaccttool2.html - Mar, 2007
