Working with Controls for Text Data
Chapters 4 and 5 described most text box design-mode details in the context of form design and layout. Chapter 2 provided a detailed explanation of the rich text box’s capabilities in data entry mode. For the sake of brevity (and tree conservation), this chapter doesn’t repeat the previous content. This following sections concentrate on the InfoPath and XML Schema data types that are compatible with text-based controls.
Text Boxes
Text boxes are InfoPath’s most versatile control type. You can bind text boxes to fields of almost all of the InfoPath field data types—picture is the only excluded data type—as shown in Figure 6-5. (XHTML, which also is excluded, is an InfoPath format, not an XML Schema datatype.) ...
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