Interesting thread
We have integrated XForms into our product, and I would never say that XForms
is a failure. I do, however, think that for largely non-technical reasons the
world has decided to go in other directions. The work Alain's done with
XSLTForms is phenomenal, but XML in general is being hit hard in favor of
lighter weight protocols. I think XSLT is safe in that there is no real
competitor for transforming XML documents. XQuery is questionable as a
transformation technology (IMHO), but it is still the best way to query an XML
database full of XML content. But even large XML database proponents like
MarkLogic are supporting JSON as well as XML these days.
At TerraXML we have recently decided to adopt AngularJS for our new front end
work, and the more I learn about it the more I see just how many similarities
it has with XForms. The model may be JSON instead of XML, but it is uncanny
how it almost has a feature to feature match with XForms. Even some of the
struggles we've had with XForms also come across when building an AngularJS
forms (I call it trial and error programming). XForms was on the right
track, it just didn't get critical mass. It needed somebody like Google to
jump behind it and that didn't happen. They jumped behind AngularJS instead.
I don't know what the future is for XForms, but our current plan is to support
both XForms and HTML5/AngularJS for a time, but we will start migrate over to
doing new forms using AngularJS.
Paul Vanderveen, Product Architect
TerraXML, Inc.
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