On Your Own

Here’s an additional exercise to learn more about the XML technologies described in this chapter:

  1. Navigate to your C:\Microsoft Press\Introducing InfoPath 2003\Chapter03\StatusReport folder.

  2. Right-click StatusReport.xsn, and choose Design from the shortcut menu to open the template in design mode.

  3. Choose File, Extract Form Files to open the Browse For Folder dialog box.

  4. Accept the default location (the current folder), and click OK to extract and decompress the files, which include a secondary data source file (currencies.xml) and its schema (currencies.xsd), and a custom aggregation template (agg.xsl) for merging Status Report data documents.

  5. Double-click currencies.xml to display it in Internet Explorer. The currency file provides ...

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