Tax Code Software Foundation :: taxForms
At the heart of Tax Code is XForms, a W3C standard for XML forms. Tax Code refers to the package of XForms technolgy for tax software as taxForms. Tax Code uses XForms extensively, so it deserves some more definition and explanation.
XForms is based on over 10 years of the collective experience of web software developers' use of HTML forms. The w3C XFOrms working group is lead by top technologist from large company's such as IBM, Cardiff, and Adobe, as well as other members of the W3C who have contributed to xForms development. xForms' popularity is definately on the rise, as it offer many distinct advantages for creating applications.
HTML forms lack certain features that make them a complete solution for forms development, HTML forms depend on a client/server architecture, and to kae them do anything requires extensive scripting and/or code running on the server. HTML format also lack structure, and the form itself cannot be used in workflow. XForms is a rewrite of sort of HTML forms, using XML as its base language.
Xforms has everything that HTML forms does not. For starters, XForms can run entirely on the client, or it can run in client server mode. It has XMLSchema validation, a calculation engine that uses XPath, and can be intergrated with various other technologies such as XSLT to create end to end XML applications without writing a single line of native code. Is is important to note that xForms needs a host language to run inside of. Common examples of host langauges include XHTML, XFDL (a w3c candidate from IBM<), and SVG, but can work with any XML technology.
More information on XForms can be found by visiting the following linksXForms
- the next generation of Web forms
Repository for this next generation of Web forms, including
implementations,
mailing lists, working group, and relationship with other W3C work.
www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
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XForms
1.0
This specification is the successor to XHTML forms, and benefits
from the lessons
learned in the years of HTML forms implementation experience.
www.w3.org/TR/xforms/
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XForms
Tutorial
Learn how to prepare for XForms, and how to start using XForms
Data in applications.
www.w3schools.com/xforms/default.asp
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XForms Home Page
Welcome to the XForms home page. XForms is a GUI
toolkit based on Xlib for X ...
XForms is distributed with a GUI builder that allows fast construction
of ...
world.std.com/~xforms/
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XML.com: What Are XForms
HTML forms have long been a weak link in web interfaces -- now XML
comes to the
rescue with XForms, the W3C's new web forms technology.
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XML.com: Ten Favorite XForms
Engines
The author of O'Reilly's XForms Essentials describes ten
software packages that
implement the W3C's XForms specification, seen as the XML-friendly
successor ...
www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/09/10/xforms.html -
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Mozilla XForms Project
This XForms project has the goal to implement the W3C's XForms
1.0 ... To start
with, the project will try to achieve most of the XForms features in a ...
www.mozilla.org/projects/xforms/
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XForms Essentials
You are reading O'Reilly XForms Essentials by Micah Dubinko. ...
This chapter
gives a brief history of HTML forms and XForms, the design philosophy
behind ...
xformsinstitute.com/essentials/browse/book.php
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XForms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The XForms Working Group has announced that a second edition
of the XForms 1.0
... XForms 1.1, which introduces a few improvements and clarifies
a few ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XForms
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