Editing XForms (section)

==XForms for mobile devices==
{{Update|part=Benefits|reason="JavaScript support varies greatly on mobile devices and cannot be widely relied upon." - this was written in 2005 and is outdated|date=July 2021}}

===Benefits===
XForms provides specific benefits when used on mobile devices:
* User interfaces using XForms require fewer round trips with the server and are in that sense more self-contained than user interfaces using HTML 4 forms.
* Capabilities of mobile devices vary greatly; consequently the amount of the work involved in generating different user interfaces for different devices is of particular concern in the mobile world. XForms has been designed from the ground up to allow forms to be described independently of the device, which reduces the amount of work required to target multiple devices.
* XForms reduces the need for JavaScript, which is particularly interesting as JavaScript support varies greatly on mobile devices and cannot be widely relied upon.  This also allows systems on which JavaScript is disabled for security concerns to continue to operate flawlessly.

===Implementations===

====ODK ====
[[ODK (software)|ODK]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://getodk.org/|title=ODK - Collect data anywhere|website=getodk.org}}</ref> is an open-source mobile data collection platform that uses a subset of W3C XForms 1.0 called ODK XForms.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://getodk.github.io/xforms-spec|title = ODK XForms Specification}}</ref> ODK provides ODK XForms processing libraries in Java ([https://github.com/getodk/javarosa JavaRosa]) and JavaScript ([https://github.com/enketo/enketo-core/ enketo-core]).

====Xfolite====
[http://www.xfolite.org Xfolite] is a light-weight XForms client for the J2ME platform. It was originally created at Nokia Research Center, and it includes a DOM and XPath 1.0 implementation as well as an XForms engine that implements the XForms 1.1 specification almost completely. XFolite was released as beta software and should not be considered ready for production use as such. However, it does contain a mature XForms engine that has been designed to work with different UI implementations. XML Schemas and CSS are outside project scope, however. Xfolite is open source and licensed under the LGPL license, but is not being actively developed further.