Category Archives: XForms

Balisage 2025

My paper on my little CMS (details won’t be available for a while yet) project has been accepted at Balisage. It feels a bit like cheating, to be honest, because that paper is simply a development of any number of papers and ideas before it, from versioning to S2000M. I’ve been thinking about content management fora very long time. My CMS — called JACMS (Just another CMS) for now — is intended to provide a simpler alternative than pretty much anything I’ve done for customers in the past. But JACMS is also very much what I think a good CMS should be, in terms of how we treat content.

And before you ask, no, a “CMS” to me is not WordPress or Drupal.

So, we’ll see.

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.