XForms 1.0

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1 About the XForms 1.0 Specification
    1.1 Background
    1.2 Reading the Specification
    1.3 How the Specification is Organized
    1.4 Documentation Conventions
2 Concepts
    2.1 Purpose and Presentation
    2.2 Current Approach: XHTML
    2.3 Stepping Up to XForms
    2.4 Providing XML Instance Data
    2.5 The XForms Model
    2.6 Multiple Forms per Document
    2.7 Complete Document
3 Terminology
4 Datatypes
    4.1 XML Schema Datatypes
    4.2 XForms Datatypes
        4.2.1 tokenList
5 The XForms Model
    5.1 Introduction
    5.2 Model Item Properties
        5.2.1 type
        5.2.2 readOnly
        5.2.3 required
        5.2.4 relevant
        5.2.5 calculate
        5.2.6 isValid
        5.2.7 maxOccurs
        5.2.8 minOccurs
    5.3 Binding
        5.3.1 bind
        5.3.2 Binding Constraints
        5.3.3 Binding References
        5.3.4 Binding Example
    5.4 Applying XML Schema Datatypes
        5.4.1 Atomic Datatype
        5.4.2 Closed Enumeration
        5.4.3 Open Enumeration
        5.4.4 Union
        5.4.5 Multiple Selection
        5.4.6 Repeating Line Items
        5.4.7 Alternate Representation
6 XPath Expressions in XForms
    6.1 Datatypes
    6.2 Instance Data
    6.3 Evaluation Context
    6.4 Canonical Binding Expressions
    6.5 Forms Core Function Library
        6.5.1 Boolean Methods
        6.5.2 Number Methods
        6.5.3 String Methods
        6.5.4 Miscellaneous Methods
    6.6 Extensibility
        6.6.1 Extension Functions
7 Form Controls
    7.1 Introduction
    7.2 input
    7.3 textarea
    7.4 secret
    7.5 output
    7.6 upload
    7.7 range
    7.8 submit
    7.9 button
    7.10 selectBoolean
    7.11 selectOne
    7.12 selectMany
    7.13 Common Markup forselectOneand selectMany
        7.13.1 item
        7.13.2 itemref
        7.13.3 choices
    7.14 Common Markup
        7.14.1 Common Attributes
        7.14.2 Single Node Binding Attributes
        7.14.3 Nodeset Binding Attributes
        7.14.4 Common Child Elements
            7.14.4.1 caption
            7.14.4.2 help
            7.14.4.3 hint
            7.14.4.4 alert
            7.14.4.5 action
            7.14.4.6 extension
8 XForms Actions
    8.1 Using XForms Actions
    8.2 dispatch
    8.3 refresh
    8.4 recalculate
    8.5 revalidate
    8.6 setFocus
    8.7 setValue
    8.8 submitInstance
    8.9 resetInstance
    8.10 insert
    8.11 delete
    8.12 scroll
    8.13 setRepeatCursor
    8.14 toggle
    8.15 script
9 XForms User Interface
    9.1 Grouping Form Controls
    9.2 Conditional Constructs For Dynamic User Interfaces
    9.3 Repeating Structures
        9.3.1 Repeat Processing
        9.3.2 User Interface Interaction
    9.4 Dynamic Selection Choices
    9.5 Reusable Form Controls
10 Document Structure
    10.1 The XForms Namespace
    10.2 XForms Elements
        10.2.1 xform
        10.2.2 model
        10.2.3 instance
        10.2.4 submitInfo
        10.2.5 bindings
        10.2.6 privacy
        10.2.7 action
        10.2.8 extension
    10.3 Integration with XLink
        10.3.1 XLink role for XForms
        10.3.2 XLink role for the XForms Model
        10.3.3 XLink role for the Instance Data
        10.3.4 XLink role for the XForms User Interface
11 Processing Model
    11.1 Introduction
        11.1.1 Design Rationale
    11.2 XForms Properties
    11.3 Events
    11.4 XForms Processing
        11.4.1 Initialization/Resume
        11.4.2 Instance Data Construction
        11.4.3 Navigation Sequence Algorithm
        11.4.4 Interactivity
        11.4.5 Recalculation Sequence Algorithm
            11.4.5.1 Details on Creating the Master Dependency Directed Graph
            11.4.5.2 Details on Creating the Pertinent Dependency Subgraph
            11.4.5.3 Details on Computing Individual Vertices
            11.4.5.4 Example of Calculation Processing
        11.4.6 UI Refresh Algorithm
        11.4.7 Revalidation Algorithm
    11.5 Submit and Reset
        11.5.1 Submit
        11.5.2 Reset
    11.6 Serialization Formats for Instance Data
        11.6.1 application/x-www-form-urlencoded
        11.6.2 multipart/form-data
        11.6.3 text/xml
            11.6.3.1 Binary Content
    11.7 Conformance
        11.7.1 XForms Basic
        11.7.2 XForms Full
        11.7.3 Conforming XForms Processors
        11.7.4 Conforming XForms Containing Documents
        11.7.5 Conforming XForms Generators

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XForms 1.0

W3C Working Draft 28 August 2001

Abstract

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