XForms models, collects and transmits user input by building on several existing W3C standards. Re-using existing standards makes it possible to construct XForms processors from existing software that is designed to work with the standards being re-used.

Today's Web applications require sophisticated control over a form's presentation and over the data that is ultimately submitted. XForms, currently at the level of Candidate Recommendation status at the W3C, aims to satisfy those needs, including separating functionality from presentation and streamlining validation and events processing.

W3Schools: XForms Tutorial offers a tutorial on how to use the next generation in HTML forms. XML.com: What Are XForms?

W3Schools: XForms Tutorial Open site in a new window - offers a tutorial on how to use the next generation in HTML forms. XML.com: What Are XForms?

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Micah Dubinko has a new site with tutorials on XForms. He's using a browser, written in Flash, to display XForms on any up-to-date browser.

"The current design of Web forms doesn't separate the purpose from the presentation of a form. XForms, in contrast, are comprised of separate sections that describe what the form does, and how the form looks. This allows for flexible presentation options, including classic XHTML forms, to be attached to an XML form definition."

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So you are asking "Why do we need another W3C standard?" Simply put, XForms fills a significant void in HTML Web Forms. More and more, Web browsers are becoming the users' interface for applications. Companies are leveraging the network by using the Internet to connect users from everywhere, and the simplest, fastest way to do this is to deliver the interface via HTML in a browser.

XForms is W3C's name for next generation Web forms. The key idea is to separate the user interface and presentation from the data model and logic. XForms brings XML to Web forms, transferring form data as XML.

XForms Tutorials

Introduction to XForms This is a very comprehensive tutorial on XForms. What are XForms XML.com explains how XForms will change how you use forms.

The specification introduction includes a brief tutorial on XForms and contain a normative description of XForms described in XML Schema, information

Over the course of this three-part tutorial, I introduced XForm, with a look at the <xforms:submission> element in an XForm using built-in XML Schema datatypes

XML.com has a very good intro tutorial to XForms. I am still not personally sure about the benefits of Xforms (even in an XML-XSLT application, I actually wrote my own DTD and stylesheets to present and process forms in XHTML and elected NOT to use XForms recently) vs the overhead.

The W3C XForms Working Group has published a new Working Draft of XForms 1.0 that "incorporates new material agreed upon at the Boston face to face meeting, including the adoption of XML Schema to replace XForms Simple Syntax, as well as initial efforts at modularizing XForms and additional feedback from outside sources. XForms are the W3C's response to demands from Web applications and eCommerce solutions, which require Web forms with richer interactions.

XForms are the next generation of HTML Forms! In our XForms tutorial, you will learn how to prepare yourself for XForms, and how to start using XForms in your applications.

Learn how to prepare for XForms, and how to start using XForms Data in applications

Effectively Gather and Manage XML. This unique introduction to W3C XForms provides the Web's most accurate tutorial on XForms, written by an editor of the

XML. It also has a bind element, the key to the power of XForms: it can work directly with nearly any kind of XML in existence.