Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Chapter Summary

InfoPath’s Data Source Wizard makes creating data sources for new form templates a quick and easy process. You can base the data source for a form on a sample XML data document or an XML schema. If you don’t have a schema for your document, you can let InfoPath infer the schema or use the Microsoft XSD Inference 1.0 tool to create one. Alternatively, you can design your data source and form interactively, but starting from scratch is a more tedious and error-prone process. Designing an XML data document and its schema in the Data Source task pane adds an undesirable my: namespace prefix to the resulting document.

Dragging a data source node—often the first child of the root node—to InfoPath’s work area adds sections and their ...