Preface
W3C XForms—XML powered Web forms—is an overhaul to HTML forms from 1993. On-line forms are critical to electronic commerce on the Internet, and the HTML forms design from 1993 is now beginning to show its age. The advent of XML on the Web and the subsequent move to Web Services as a means of connecting disparate information technologies to deliver end-to-end customer solutions have now made XML documents central to the fabric of the Web.
XForms leverages the power of using XML in modeling, collecting, and serializing user input. The XForms design enables simple browser-based interfaces for creating and editing XML documents with the client providing interactive support for ensuring that the XML document is valid. Thus, XForms enables the ...
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