The Forms Working Group Wiki
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Forms Working Group
XForms: The Next Generation of Web Forms
"XForms" is W3C's name for a specification of Web forms that can be used with a wide variety of platforms including desktop computers, hand helds, information appliances, and even paper.
XForms Transitional for use with HTML
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W3C XForms Tutorials and Introductions
W3C XForms Recommendations and Drafts
Other W3C Publications closely related to XForms
XForms Weblog and portal Sites
Internet Apps (blog)
XForms Everywhere (blog)
Push Button Paradise(blog)
XML Applications (blog)
http://www.xformsinstitute.com/ (portal)
XForms.org (portal)
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Books and Wikis on XForms 1.0
Programming Firefox (XForms Chapter) by Kenneth C. Feldt (O'Reilly, 2007) [0596102437]
XForms Essentials by Micah Dubinko [0596003692], Publisher's Site
XForms: XML Powered Web Forms by T.V. Raman [0321154991]
Other introductions and articles about XForms
XForms Basics (start here)
Introduction to XForms, Part 1 The new Web standard for forms
Introduction to XForms, Part 2 Forms, models, controls, and submission actions
Introduction to XForms on the formsPlayer site.
Orbeon Forms Tutorial on the Orbeon site.
Kurt Cagle's Six Part Series on Understanding XForms
Other articles
XForms and Cause-and-Effect Programming A brief introduction to XForms concepts and markup via a sample form.
XFDL + Forms and XSL-FO + Forms A perspective on how XForms is enabling increasingly sophisticated web applications that arise in financial/banking, insurance, health care, and enterprise information management.
When should I use XForms? blog post by MarkBirbeck on how XForms benefits the developer more than the end-user.
Ajax, Hard Facts, Brass Tacks...and Bad Slacks blog post by MarkBirbeck on XForms' relationship to Ajax.
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