Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Chapter Summary

InfoPath’s set of 13 basic controls and lists contribute to form design versatility. Some general-purpose input controls, such as text boxes, can bind to fields of all but one of the nine XML Schema datatypes that InfoPath supports. Special-purpose input controls bind to specific data types—date picker controls bind only to date, time, or dateTime elements or attributes, and picture controls store image data as base64Binary element values. Rich text boxes bind to string elements; InfoPath’s XHTML data type is an identifier for formatted text, not an XML Schema data type. Bulleted, numbered, and plain lists bind to string elements and support optional XHTML character formatting. General-purpose input controls, including bound ...