26.3. Sending Form Data

The XSLT document you created in the previous section created HTML that works with any HTML-3.2-compliant browser. You will transmit the form data as usual, by using the browser’s HTTP capabilities. New capabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 5.0+ and Netscape version 6.2+ allow the XML to be sent directly to and from the browser. These capabilities are certainly the direction that Internet devices should take in the future.

Unfortunately, you cannot be certain that all users will be using XML-compliant browsers, so you will continue to send the data by using HTML standards in our case study.

After you send the data, you must commit to a server development framework. The CRSS case study is going to use Microsoft’s ...

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