XForms

XForms recently reached the W3C's Candidate Recommendation status—and you need to know about it—because XForms isn't a form description language, it's a language for describing applications in a platform-independent way. Best of all, it integrates easily with technologies you already know, such as XHTML, XPath, SVG, and CSS. 
 
If you want to know more about XForms, Devx has a great article on this new language.

A question is about XAML: is it a Microsoft interpretation of XForm or something else ?!?
 

2 Comments

  • XForms does look cool, altho I doubt that Microsoft will provide much support for it, since they threw it out (for whatever reasons) and rolled their own very similar thing in InfoPath. XAML does seem to have a passing similarity to XForms also, altho I don't have my PDC DVDs yet so I haven't really looked into it that much.

  • InfoPath would be the MS implementation of XForms. Of Course, it's not according to the W3 spec. However, InfoPath is a nice version of XForms.



    XAML in my opinion, is markup used to render the UI. XForms and InfoPath is a schema based form model where the actually instance data can be pulled out and consumed.



    Sean

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