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Excellent Introduction to XForms
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This book in an excellent review of the XForms standard. It is part tutorial and part reference book. It starts with about 50 pages of background material (XPath, XML Schema, XML, namespaces etc) and then starts with a conceptual overview with some examples. It then takes us through all the major XForms concepts and elements.
The book is well written in a compact and precise style. It also has several tables that I found to be handy as references although there is no full appendix listing all the XForms elements which would have been very useful. It does have some useful additional information such as how to use CSS with XForms.
T.V. Raman is also a very credible expert on XForms since he was on the w3c XForms standards body. He gives several insights into why the standard is structured to be device independent. This allows XForms to run on web pages and mobile phone applications.
The only reason I did not give this a 5 star is that the examples on the online on the web site have many problems. The book was written using LATEX and many of the examples on-line still have many LATEX codes in them and will not run without much editing. Somewhat sloppy.
My hope is that the author fixes these problems in the future so that all the examples would work with the FireFox XForms plug-in. That would be ideal for using this book in the XForms classes I teach. The book could also have used a bit more editing, I found several grammatical errors but no real conceptual errors. |
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