@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 to 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(),
            "end": end,
            "title": "Multiple Forms on the Same Page",
        }