Tuesday 18 June 2013

Modular XForms?

I just read Eric van der Vlist's excellent XML London paper, in which he discusses the (lack of) modularity in XForms, caused to no small degree by the XForms MVC architecture, and, more importantly, offers solutions and workarounds. I really should have been there.

Having dabbled with XForms myself lately, I'm now very much looking forward to his talk at Balisage and the International Symposium on Native XML User Interfaces in Montréal, later this year.

Tuesday 4 June 2013

Not One But Two Papers Accepted

Both of my papers submitted to Balisage were accepted. I feel honoured and somewhat nervous.

My second paper is a progress report of sorts and about ProX, my XML processing XML. I think it's going to be very cool, especially because I will have an implementation to show. I finished the wrapper pipeline to run everything with just the other day, and one day very soon that wrapper will do things with a live ProX (my processing XML format) document, including some actual publishing.

As the Balisage blurb says, life is good.