oio-0.9.3 released, featuring XML forms metadata export/import/repository

OIO-0.9.3 has been released!

At long last, forms created with the OIO and hosted on any OIO server can be downloaded as OIO-XML files. This opens the door to the possibility of creating "forms" libraries, repositories, and registries where forms can be cataloged, peer-reviewed, indexed, searched, and easily shared. (The first public "forms" server should come online in a few days at www.TxOutcome.Org.) (If anyone else is interested in running a forms server or help with creating peer-review and other repository management tools, please let me know.)

Once downloaded from the "forms library" and imported into an OIO server, the necessary database tables are automatically recreated and the imported forms become immediately available to the users of that OIO server.

These XML functions are made possible by Amo's XML Document product, which is automatically installed with OIO-0.9.3 (just unzip in your zope directory). We also wish to thank Seamus Venasse for the UserSniffer which is also used by OIO-0.9.3.

The OIO download is only 333k and the direct link is here: Open-Outcomes.sourceforge.net

Alternatively, you can get a public access account from www.TxOutcome.Org to check it out first.