[xsl] user input specs -- alternatives

[Terence Kearns <terencek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For what i need most of the time, XForms is overkill. Does anyone know 
of a light-weight vocabulary for specifying user-input requirements in XML.

Every XML/XSLT developer I have worked with has rolled his own at least 
once. ie.

<inputGroup
    title="Some big form"
    type="form"
    destUri="myProcessor.jsp"
    xmlns="yet.another.wheel.reInvention">

<description />

<inputGroup
    type="section"
    title="1a"
    xmlns="yet.another.wheel.reInvention">

<inputItem id="foo1" type="text">
    <defaultVal>la la la</defaultVal>
    <constraints>
        <constraint max="255" regex="\w" />
        <reference refId="foo0">
            <case selectedDisplayItem="N/A">
                <assert value="" method="hide">
            </case>
            <case selectedIndex="0">
                <assert value="N/A" method="writeProtect">
            </case>
        </reference>
    </constraints>
    <defaultParams height="6" width="40" class="theme1" />
</inputItem>

... more input items...

<inputGroup>

<inputGroup>


Then you can build libraries of XSL widgets to render these things, and 
use them over and over.

It seems like no two attempts are the same and they all serve different 
purposes. Has anyone out there found an input specification vocabulary 
that they liked?

I myself am interested in something that works well with the concept of 
widgets written in XSL [to XHTML typically].


--
Terence Kearns ~ ph: +61 2 6201 5516
IT Database/Applications Developer
Enterprise Information Systems
Client Services Division
University of Canberra
www.canberra.edu.au



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