This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
For related introductory information, see: Components.
Completed Work
W3C Recommendations have
been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation
Track.
Group Notes are not standards and do not
have the same level of W3C endorsement.
Standards
|
2009-10-20
|
translations
·
errata
XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation
of forms for the Web. XForms is not a free-standing document type,
but is intended to be integrated into other markup languages, such
as XHTML, ODF or SVG. An XForms-based web form gathers
and processes XML data using an architecture that separates
presentation, purpose and content. The underlying data of a form is
organized into instances of data schema (though formal
schema definitions are not required). An XForm allows processing of
data to occur using three mechanisms:
-
a declarative model composed of formulae for data
calculations and constraints, data type and other property
declarations, and data submission parameters
-
a view layer composed of intent-based user interface
controls
-
an imperative controller for orchestrating data
manipulations, interactions between the model and view layers, and
data submissions.
Thus, XForms accommodates form component reuse, fosters strong
data type validation, eliminates unnecessary round-trips to the
server, offers device independence and reduces the need for
scripting.
XForms 1.1 refines the XML processing platform introduced by
[XForms 1.0] by adding several new
submission capabilities, action handlers, utility functions, user
interface improvements, and helpful datatypes as well as a more
powerful action processing facility, including conditional,
iterated and background execution, the ability to manipulate data
arbitrarily and to access event context information.
|
Group Notes
|
2004-08-31
|
XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms
for the Web. This document specifies the requirements for XForms 1.1.
|
Drafts
Below are draft documents:
Candidate Recommendations, other Working Drafts.
Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track
process. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.
Candidate Recommendations
|
2003-10-14
|
The XForms Basic Profile describes a minimal level of XForms processing
tailored to the needs of constrained devices and environments.
|
Other Working Drafts
|
2008-12-19
|
|
|
2001-04-04
|
Forms were introduced into HTML in 1993. Since then they have
gone on to become a critical part of the Web. The existing
mechanisms in HTML for forms are now outdated, and W3C has started
work on developing an effective replacement. This document outlines
the requirements for "XForms", W3C's name for the next generation
of Web forms.
|
W3C
