XForms disappointed beginner

"Alex Meyers" <[email protected]> Fri, 13 May 2005 14:27:21 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xml
Organization	Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Got XForms working on Mozilla, took some time to convince IIS to serve it 
correctly :)
Now I got a little test form, nothing really complicated, which I 
constructed with XFormation editor

formsPlayer version

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html xmlns:fp="urn:formsplayer.com" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" 
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
 <head>
  <object width="0" height="0" id="FormsPlayer" 
classid="CLSID:4D0ABA11-C5F0-4478-991A-375C4B648F58">
   <b>FormsPlayer has failed to load! Please check your installation.</b>
  </object>
  <?import namespace="xf" implementation="#FormsPlayer"?>
  <xf:model>
   <xf:instance id="Data">
    <Data>
     <ReadOnly>1</ReadOnly><Required>2</Required><Relevant>3</Relevant><Calculate>4</Calculate><Constraint>5</Constraint>
    </Data>
   </xf:instance>
   <xf:bind nodeset="/Data/*" type="xs:integer" id="DataInteger" />
   <xf:bind id="ReadOnly" readonly="true()" nodeset="ReadOnly" />
   <xf:bind id="Required" required="true()" nodeset="Required" />
   <xf:submission id="SaveLocal" action="./savelocal.xml" method="put" 
replace="none" ref="/" />
   <xf:bind nodeset="Calculate" calculate="../ReadOnly * ../Required" />
  </xf:model>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p><xf:input ref="ReadOnly"><xf:label>ReadOnly</xf:label></xf:input></p>
  <p><xf:input ref="Required"><xf:label>Required</xf:label></xf:input></p>
  <p><xf:input ref="Relevant"><xf:label>Relevant</xf:label></xf:input></p>
  <p><xf:output 
ref="Calculate"><xf:label>Calculate</xf:label></xf:output></p>
  <p><xf:input 
ref="Constraint"><xf:label>Constraint</xf:label></xf:input></p>
  <p><xf:submit 
submission="SaveLocal"><xf:label>Save</xf:label></xf:submit></p>
 </body>
</html>

for Mozilla drop the fp namespace, object and import
for Novell drop the fp namespave, object and replace import with
    <?import namespace="xf" urn="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" 
implementation="#default#nxforms"/>

tried it with Mozilla, IE with formsPlayer plugin and IE with Novell plugin, 
each give a different behaviour

formsPlayer plays the example completely correctly, but my intention was to 
make a relevant rule for the Relevant field if Required was greater than 5 
and after half a day i gave up on that, no way to get it working

Novell only shows the save button and it works, but none of the fields is 
displayed !!!

Mozilla shows fields but doesn't show any of the default values and any 
values that you enter are not saved, but saving works with the initial 
values !!!

is my form that bad ???
i was very excited when i started learing about XForms (XForms essentials by 
Dubinko)
in theory everything seems great
but implementation seems long way off for something that became a standard 
19 months ago !!!

i think it will probably go in the ijskast again, my chef will not tolerate 
anymore time wasting :(

Alex