XForms Handout

By Jaime Telfer & Justin Thorp
April 18, 2006
Rochester Institute of Technology
Department of Information Technology - Web Client/Server Programming

Quick Reference

XForms Namespace - http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms

XML Events Namespace - http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events

Model Elements

• XML Instance Data Being Submitted - <instance></instance>
  
• Where and How It Is Submitted - <submission action="submit.php" method="post" id="submit" />
• Data Requirements - <bind id="bindname" nodeset="//name" required="true()"/>
  

Interface Elements

• Single-line Input - <input ><label>Name: </label></input>
• Text Area - <textarea ref="comments"><label>Comments</label></textarea>
• Password - <secret ref="pw"><label>Password:</label></secret>
  
• Radio Buttons -
  <select1 ref="sex">
     <label>Gender:</label>
     <item><label>Male</label><value>M</value></item>
     <item><label>Female</label><value>F</value></item>
  </select1>
• Output - <output ref="sum"><label>Total</label></output>
• Submit - <submit submission="submit_it"><label>submit</label></submit>
• Reset - <trigger><label>Clear all fields</label><reset ev:event="DOMActivate"/></trigger>
  

Resources

General

• Mozilla Developer's Center: XForms   - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XForms
  
• O'Reilly's XForms Essentials By Micah Dubinko (HTML Version of the Book)   - http://xformsinstitute.com/essentials/browse/

• skimstone - Making it easy to build next generation internet applications   - http://skimstone.x-port.net/
  

• W3 Schools: XForms Tutorial   - http://www.w3schools.com/xforms/default.asp
• XForms - Wikipedia   - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XForms
  

Plug-in's & Extensions

• FormsPlayer  - http://www.formsplayer.com/content/index.html
  
• Mozilla XForms Extension   - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xforms/download.html
  

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• XForms Home Page - http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
  

• XForms 1.0 (Second Edition) Recommendation  - http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/

• XForms for HTML Authors   - http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2003/xforms-for-html-authors.html
  

• XForms for HTML Authors , Part 2   - http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2006/xforms-for-html-authors-part2.html