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XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of Forms for the Web. By splitting traditional XHTML forms into three parts - data model, instance data, and user interface - it separates presentation from content, allows reuse, gives strong typing - reducing the number of round-trips to the server, as well as offering device independence and a reduced need for scripting.
XForms is not a free-standing document type, but is intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such as XHTML.
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This is a W3C Last Call Working Draft of the XForms 1.0 specification, for review by W3C members and other interested parties. The Last Call review period ends on 22 February 2002 at 2359Z. Please send review comments before the end of the review period to www-forms-editor@w3.org. This list is archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms-editor/.
Following completion of Last Call, the XForms Working Group has agreed to advance the specification according to the following exit criteria:
Sufficient reports of implementation experience have been gathered to demonstrate that XForms processors based on the specification are implementable and have compatible behavior.
An implementation report shows that there is at least one implementation of each feature.
Formal responses to all comments received by the Working Group.
If these criteria are met, the specification will advance to Proposed Recommendation, otherwise the specification will enter a Candidate Recommendation phase to ensure that the above criteria are met.
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1 About the XForms 1.0
Specification
1.1 Background
1.2 Reading the Specification
1.3 How the Specification is
Organized
1.4 Documentation
Conventions
2 Introduction to XForms
2.1 Separating
Purpose From Presentation
2.2 Current Approach: HTML
2.3 Transition to XForms
2.4 Providing XML Instance
Data
2.5 Constraining Values
2.6 Multiple Forms per
Document
3 Document Structure
3.1 The XForms Namespace
3.2 Horizontally Applicable
Markup
3.3 Model
3.4 instance
3.5 schema
3.6 submitInfo
3.7 privacy
3.8 XForms and XLink
3.8.1 XLink
Conformance and Examples
4 Processing Model
4.1 Events Overview
4.2 Initialization Events
4.2.1 xforms:modelConstruct
4.2.2 xforms:modelInitialize
4.2.3 xforms:initializeDone
4.2.4 xforms:UIInitialize
4.2.5 xforms:formControlInitialize
4.3 Interaction Events
4.3.1 DOM Mutation Events
4.3.2 xforms:next and
xforms:previous
4.3.3 xforms:focus and
xforms:blur
4.3.4 xforms:activate
4.3.5 xforms:valueChanging
4.3.6 xforms:valueChanged
4.3.7 xforms:scrollFirst
4.3.8 xforms:scrollLast
4.3.9 xforms:insert and
xforms:delete
4.3.10 xforms:select and
xforms:deselect
4.3.11 xforms:help and
xforms:hint
4.3.12 xforms:alert
4.3.13 xforms:valid
4.3.14 xforms:invalid
4.3.15 xforms:refresh
4.3.16 xforms:revalidate
4.3.17 xforms:recalculate
4.3.18 xforms:reset
4.4 XForms Submit
4.4.1 xforms:submit
4.4.2 application/x-www-form-urlencoded
4.4.3 multipart/form-data
4.4.4 text/xml
4.4.4.1 Binary
Content
4.5 Error Indications
4.5.1 xforms:schemaConstraintsError
4.5.2 xforms:traversalError
4.5.3 xforms:invalidDatatypeError
5 Datatypes
5.1 XML Schema Built-in
Datatypes
5.2 XForms Datatypes
5.2.1 xforms:listItem
5.2.2 xforms:listItems
6 Constraints
6.1 XForms
Constraints
6.1.1 type
6.1.2 readOnly
6.1.3 required
6.1.4 relevant
6.1.5 calculate
6.1.6 isValid
6.1.7 maxOccurs
6.1.8 minOccurs
6.2 Schema Constraints
6.2.1 Atomic Datatype
6.3 Additional Schema
Examples
6.3.1 Closed
Enumeration
6.3.2 Open
Enumeration
6.3.3 Union
6.3.4 Lists
6.4 Binding
6.4.1 bind
6.4.2 Rules For Binding
Expressions
6.4.3 Binding References
7 XPath Expressions in XForms
7.1 XPath Datatypes
7.2 Instance Data
7.3 Evaluation Context
7.4 XForms Core Function Library
7.4.1 Boolean Methods
7.4.1.1 boolean-from-string()
7.4.1.2 if()
7.4.2 Number Methods
7.4.2.1 avg()
7.4.2.2 min()
7.4.2.3 max()
7.4.2.4 count-non-empty()
7.4.2.5 cursor()
7.4.3 String Methods
7.4.3.1 property()
7.4.3.2 now()
7.4.4 Extension Functions
8 Form Controls
8.1 input
8.2 secret
8.3 textarea
8.4 output
8.5 upload
8.6 range
8.7 button
8.8 submit
8.9 selectOne
8.10 selectMany
8.11 Common Markup for selection
controls
8.11.1 choices
8.11.2 item
8.11.3 itemset
8.11.4 value
8.12 Common Markup
8.12.1 Common
Attributes
8.12.2 Single Node Binding
Attributes
8.12.3 Nodeset Binding
Attributes
8.12.4 Common Child
Elements
8.12.4.1 caption
8.12.4.2 help
8.12.4.3 hint
8.12.4.4 alert
8.12.4.5 extension
9 XForms User Interface
9.1 group
9.2 switch
9.3 repeat
9.3.1 Repeat
Processing
9.3.2 Nested Repeats
9.3.3 User Interface
Interaction
10 XForms Actions
10.1 dispatch
10.2 refresh
10.3 recalculate
10.4 revalidate
10.5 setFocus
10.6 loadURI
10.7 setValue
10.8 submitInstance
10.9 resetInstance
10.10 setRepeatCursor
10.11 insert
10.12 delete
10.13 toggle
10.14 script
10.15 message
10.16 action
11 Conformance
11.1 Conformance Levels
11.1.1 XForms
Basic
11.1.2 XForms Full
11.2 Conformance Description
11.2.1 Conforming
XForms Processors
11.2.2 Conforming
XForms Documents
11.2.3 Conforming
XForms Generators
12 Glossary Of Terms
A Schema for XForms
A.1 Schema for XLink
A.2 Schema for XML Events
B References
B.1 Normative References
B.2 Informative References
C Recalculation Sequence Algorithm
C.1 Details on Creating
the Master Dependency Directed Graph
C.2 Details on Creating
the Pertinent Dependency Subgraph
C.3 Details on
Computing Individual Vertices
C.4 Example of
Calculation Processing
D Input Modes
D.1 inputMode Attribute Value
Syntax
D.2 User Agent Behavior
D.3 List of Tokens
D.3.1 Script Tokens
D.3.2 Modifier Tokens
D.4 Relationship to XML Schema
pattern facets
D.5 Examples
E Complete XForms Examples
E.1 XForms In XHTML
E.2 Editing Hierarchical
Bookmarks Using XForms
F Changelog (Non-Normative)
G Acknowledgments (Non-Normative)
H Production Notes (Non-Normative)