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Asked: 2026-06-16T01:16:46+00:00

I am learning XForms. And i am trying to display this in browsers like

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I am learning XForms. And i am trying to display this in browsers like IE9, Chrome and Firefox 14.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms">
   <head>
      <title>Hello World in XForms</title>
      <xf:model>
         <xf:instance xmlns="">
            <data>
               <PersonGivenName/>
            </data>
         </xf:instance>
      </xf:model>
   </head>
   <body>
      <p>Type your first name in the input box. <br/>
        If you are running XForms, the output should be displayed in the output area.</p>   
         <xf:input ref="PersonGivenName" incremental="true">
            <xf:label>Please enter your first name: </xf:label>
         </xf:input>
         <br />
         <xf:output value="concat('Hello ', PersonGivenName, '. We hope you like XForms!')">
            <xf:label>Output: </xf:label>
         </xf:output>
   </body>
</html>

But textbox is not appearing. What is the problem? I have tried to search Xfroms plugins for browsers but found nothing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As Alain Couthures has already pointed out, there is currently no native support for XForms in browsers (and apparently no prospect of it in future). You will need to install either a client-side or a server-side implementation of XForms, and then you should start to see results.

    Available client-side implementations include

    • XSLTForms (which Alain Couthures wrote and which is often used for its simplicity of setup)
    • Ubiquity XForms (an ongoing project mostly carried by Mark Birbeck; widely regarded as promising, but not well documented last I looked)
    • The EMC Documentum XForms Engine, aka Formula (looked very polished; documentation is aimed at those integrating it with other EMC products)

    Prominent server-side implementations include

    • Orbeon (perhaps the best documented of all XForms products)
    • BetterFORM (successor to the Chiba project)

    Several of these have active user-community mailing lists.

    There are also non-browser-based implementations which use languages other than HTML as the host document language (IBM Forms and Open Office).

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