XML for forms

[Barclay Blair]

Thanks for pointing out this concern, and I sincerely apologize to the group
for the inappropriate postings. I will keep further postings within the
boundaries of tone and content that are more suitable.

Mike, as to your question, I believe the answer is yes for both XFA and
XFDL.

Any parser that uses SAX/DOM can read, change, and write XFDL forms, but the
“additional” features that XFDL offers, such as digital signatures,
formatting, computations, etc, will not be active using those standard
parsers.

Barclay

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
Michael Rossi
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 10:18 AM
To: xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Subject: RE: XML for forms


Barclay Blair wrote:
>
> Rob and Gavin,
>
> Thanks for the responses -- very interesting! I always enjoy exchanging
> ideas  (or barbs, as the case may be, Gavin :)).  I have some concerns
that
> we're in danger of boring the rest of the group with the semantics of form
> presentation etc., so I'd be happy to continue the discussion individually
> with each of you, instead of on the list. That is, unless the group or
> yourselves feel strongly about continuing the dialogue on the list.

   This discussion, while quite interesting, is clearly inappropriate for
this list - as Tim noted. But I do have a (hopefully) more relevant
question. As someone who has only begun to look into both
technologies/products, I have yet to determine whether each
technology/product will allow me to interact with their forms using standard
DOM/SAX methods.

   From what I've seen so far I'm concerned that this need to capture
presentation aspects of a form might be leading to proprietary development
within the underlying specs. I'm envisioning working with XML-based forms in
the context of a larger XML-enabled process and I'd hate to get tied into a
single product to support that requirement.

   Again, I haven't had a chance to go far enough yet. But feel free to
enlighten me please. Thanks.

Mike

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