@view_config(renderer='templates/form.pt', name="multiple_forms")
    @demonstrate('Multiple Forms on the Same Page')
    def multiple_forms(self):
        import itertools

        # We need to make sure the form field identifiers for the two
        # forms do not overlap so accessibility features continue work
        # such as focusing the field related to a legend when the
        # legend is clicked on.

        # We do so by creating an ``itertools.count`` object and
        # passing that object as the ``counter`` keyword argument to
        # the constructor of both forms.  As a result, the second
        # form's element identifiers will not overlap the first
        # form's.

        counter = itertools.count() 
        
        class Schema1(colander.Schema):
            name1 = colander.SchemaNode(colander.String())
        schema1 = Schema1()
        form1 = deform.Form(schema1, buttons=('submit',), formid='form1',
                            counter=counter)

        class Schema2(colander.Schema):
            name2 = colander.SchemaNode(colander.String())
        schema2 = Schema2()
        form2 = deform.Form(schema2, buttons=('submit',), formid='form2',
                            counter=counter)

        html = []
        captured = None

        if 'submit' in self.request.POST:
            posted_formid = self.request.POST['__formid__']
            for (formid, form) in [('form1', form1), ('form2', form2)]:
                if formid == posted_formid:
                    try:
                        controls = self.request.POST.items()
                        captured = form.validate(controls)
                        html.append(form.render(captured))
                    except deform.ValidationFailure as e:
                        # the submitted values could not be validated
                        html.append(e.render())
                else:
                    html.append(form.render())
        else:
            for form in form1, form2:
                html.append(form.render())

        html = ''.join(html)

        code, start, end = self.get_code(1)

        # values passed to template for rendering
        return {
            'form':html,
            'captured':repr(captured),
            'code': code,
            'start':start,
            'demos':self.get_demos(),
            'showmenu':True,
            'end':end,
            'title':'Multiple Forms on the Same Page',
            }