First Mozilla XForms Beta

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The Mozilla XForms beta is out (Mozilla.org, MozillaZine). Beta is not my view of it, though, alpha would be more suited. Nevertheless it shows where we are right now and where we are heading.

If you want to test it, you'll need a CVS-version of Firefox or Mozilla, as we depend on XTF support which is not in the current release-versions. The official beta, instructions, release notes, etc. can be found on the project page. For the ones running a proper Linux distro :), the kind SUSE people have included XTF and XForms in their nightly builds of Mozilla. Firefox nightlies are on the way too.

The biggest issues in the "beta" are:
* external instances and schemas are not working correctly (#279021).
* our intialization is not exactly as it should be (#275213).
* we still need some of the XPath functions (#265460, #278209).
* tags like <insert> and <delete> are missing (#278211).
* CSS styling is a hack, we do not have the pseudo-attributes and -classes (#271720, #271724).

We've also still got a lot of bughunting to do -- 43 bugs at the time of writing, plus the bugs only marked in code ... or in each team member's head :)

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