XForms 2.0 support

Orbeon Forms 4.3

Here at the feature from XForms 2.0 and its XPath expression module that are available as of Orbeon Forms 4.3:

• xf:var

• xf:repeat over sequences of atomic values and nodes

• deprecation of nodeset in favor of ref

• multiple MIPs of the same property affecting the same node

• AVTs (Attribute Value Templates)

• accept attribute on xf:upload

• xf:property child of xf:dispatch element

• iterate attribute on actions

• xf:valid() function

Orbeon Forms 4.5

XForms 2.0 features added with Orbeon Forms 4.5:

• xf:bind() function

Orbeon Forms 4.8

XForms 2.0 features added with Orbeon Forms 4.8:

• caseref attribute on xf:switch

  • This allows storing the value of the currently-selected case to instance data.

• case() function

  • This function was already available as xxf:case() in previous versions.

Orbeon Forms 2016.1

XForms 2.0 features added with Orbeon Forms 2016.1:

• xf:submission and xf:instance JSON support.

  • This allows receiving application/json content. The JSON received is converted to an XML representation friendly to XPath expressions. This allows receiving data from JSON services and using it in your forms, including via Form Builder services.

  • This also allows sending application/json content, based on an XML representation.

• xf:param and xf:body on xf:action

• type attribute on xf:action` for types:

  • text/javascript / application/javascript / javascript

  • text/xpath / application/xpath / xpath

Orbeon Forms 2017.1

XForms 2.0 features added with Orbeon Forms 2017.1:

• nonrelevant attribute on <xf:submission>

  • This deprecates the relevant attribute.

  • The values are keep, remove, and empty.

Orbeon Forms 2019.1

XForms 2.0 features added with Orbeon Forms 2019.1:

• target on <xf:load>

  • This deprecates the xxf:target attribute.

• URI functions:

  • xf:uri-scheme($uri as xs:string) as xs:string?

  • xf:uri-scheme-specific-part($uri as xs:string, $raw as xs:boolean) as xs:string?

  • xf:uri-authority($uri as xs:string, $raw as xs:boolean) as xs:string?

  • xf:uri-user-info($uri as xs:string, $raw as xs:boolean) as xs:string?

  • xf:uri-host($uri as xs:string) as xs:string?

  • xf:uri-port($uri as xs:string) as xs:integer?

  • xf:uri-path($uri as xs:string, $raw as xs:boolean) as xs:string?

  • xf:uri-query($uri as xs:string, $raw as xs:boolean) as xs:string?

  • xf:uri-fragment($uri as xs:string, $raw as xs:boolean) as xs:string?

  • xf:uri-param-names($uri as xs:string) as xs:string*

  • xf:uri-param-values($uri as xs:string, $name as xs:string) as xs:string*

Orbeon Forms 2020.1

Features

XForms 2.0 features added with Orbeon Forms 2020.1:

• xf:copy

  • Orbeon Forms implements XForms 2.0 enhancements to xf:copy including support for:

    • xf:item

    • attributes and other node types

    • XPath 2

  • NOTE: While xf:copy is an XForms 1.0 feature, Orbeon Forms didn't support it until version 2020.1.

Example of xf:copy attributes support

Let's say we an XML representation which proposes a discriminated union based on a type attribute. We have, in the data, either:

<label type="PredefinedButtonLabel"/>

or:

<label type="CustomButtonLabel">
    <name type="object">
        <values type="object">
            <en>Custom Button</en>
        </values>
    </name>
</label>

With xf:copy, the selection is written as follows:

<xf:select1 ref="label" appearance="full">
    <xf:item>
        <xf:label>Predefined</xf:label>
        <xf:copy ref="xf:attribute('type', 'PredefinedButtonLabel')"/>
    </xf:item>
    <xf:item>
        <xf:label>Custom</xf:label>
        <xf:copy
            ref="
                xf:attribute('type', 'CustomButtonLabel'),
                if (@type = 'CustomButtonLabel') then
                    *
                else
                    instance('my-custom-button-label-template')"/>
    </xf:item>
</xf:select1>
<xf:input ref="label/name/values/en"/>

The if ... then ... else pattern in the second xf:copy is there so that, in case the user has already selected a CustomButtonLabel and edited the value of the button label (here "Custom Button" initially), there will still be an exact match and the item shows as selected.

Orbeon Forms 2021.1

• the xforms-dialog-shown/xforms-dialog-hidden events

• xf:parse() function

Remaining features

For what remains to be implemented, see the issues tagged "XForms 2.0".