XForms
- A W3C Recommendation just few days ago (14th October)
- A case for tecnological interoperability towards different
devices (device independence) and integration in web services
- The new generation of the 10 years old HTML Forms
- Separates
- description of the purpose of the form
- presentation of the form
- how the results (instance data) are written in XML
- Advantages:
- reuse
- device independence
- accessibility
- XML at the core of XForm model
- Several implementation yet available
- Explicitly referenced in the "United Kingdom e-government
interoperability framework"
- XForms Basic (Candidate Recommendation) is the XForms mobile
profile.
(Native implementation of XForms on mobile devices will be
possible)
