Abstract
World Wide Web Consortium is currently specifying XForms form language, which is intended to be the next generation language for WWW forms. In XForms, content is separated from presentation. Thus, forms can be versioned easily for different purposes. In addition, the form fields can be pre- and auto-filled. Finally, XForms allows the validation of the data at the client side before it is send to the server. The major browsers do not currently support XForms, which prevents the early utilisation of XForms. In this paper, we describe our implementation of XForms. The implementation is part of our X-Smiles browser, which is an open source XML browser.
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