Chapter Summary
InfoPath 2003 provides an Office-standard UI to make entering data into forms a familiar process for Office users. InfoPath offers many data entry features—such as date picker controls, optional sections, and repeating tables—that aren’t available in ordinary HTML-based forms. Rich text boxes let you add formatted text; tables; plain, bulleted, or numbered lists; and pictures as unstructured XHTML data to rich text boxes.
InfoPath validates data against the form’s XML schema and rules that the form’s designer applies to individual controls. Data validation reduces the risk of errors resulting from incomplete forms or invalid data.
Saving and printing forms follows the Office model closely. Exploring the saved XML data document ...
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