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Introduction to XForms, Part 1: The new Web standard for forms
XForms is the next generation of Web-based data processing. It replaces traditional HTML forms with an XML data model and presentation elements. In this three-part series, you'll be introduced to XForms and its capabilities, including the basic XForms model and form, the various types of controls, and basic and advanced form submission. This article covers how XForms actually works, and shows you how to set up XForms with Firefox and Internet Explorer so that you can view your XForms samples. 		Articles 12 Sep 2006  
 
Introduction to XForms, Part 3: Using actions and events
XForms is the next generation of Web-based data processing. It replaces traditional HTML forms with an XML data model and presentation elements. In this three-part series, you'll be introduced to XForms and its capabilities, including the basic XForms model and form, the various types of controls, and basic and advanced form submission. This article, the third of a three-part series, shows you how to use actions and events with XForms, and how to control the format of the form's output. 		Articles 26 Sep 2006  
 
Introduction to XForms, Part 2: Forms, models, controls, and submission actions
XForms is the next generation of Web-based data processing. It replaces traditional HTML forms with an XML data model and presentation elements. In this three-part series, you'll be introduced to XForms and its capabilities, including the basic XForms model and form, the various types of controls, and basic and advanced form submission. This article, the second of a three-part series, focuses on creating an XForms-based form using any of the available controls, as well as creating a data model. 		Articles 19 Sep 2006  
 
Inside the XForms validator
Performing validation on mixed-namespace documents can be more art than science. XForms 1.0, which is used as a component inside arbitrary host languages, introduces some new questions about how a validator should process such documents. This article discusses some of the challenges that the author encountered while writing an online XForms validator tool, and techniques for overcoming these problems. 		Articles 10 Sep 2004  
 
Get ready for XForms
Traditional HTML forms violate many of the tenets of good markup language design, frequently mixing presentation and data. In this article, Joel Rivera and Len Taing introduce you to XForms, an extension of XHTML that represents the next generation of Web forms. Though XForms is still in an embryonic state, it holds great promise: For instance, a form written with XForms can be written once and displayed in an optimal ways on several different platforms. Once you finish reading this article, you'll have a head start on this important emerging XML technology. 		Articles 01 Sep 2002  
 
XForms extensions to XPath
XForms uses XML Path Language (XPath) as its basic function and evaluation language. This is the same XPath used in Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). In addition to familiar functions like count and substring, XForms introduces a number of useful extension functions to XPath for numeric, date, and XForms-specific operations including if, avg, min, max, now, days-from-date, month, and instance. 		Articles 07 Aug 2007  
 
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