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XForms in X-SmilesMikko HonkalaHelsinki University Of Technology, Finland Mikko.Honkala@hut.fi / Outline of the Presentation Introduction HIIT XML Devices project W3C’s XForms XForms working draft XForms implementation in X-Smiles browser Demos HIIT XML Devices Researching the use of XML in small embedded devices Handhelds, Digi-TV, NG mobile phones Porting X-Smiles XML browser into different devices Enhancing client-side interactivity through W3C’s XForms Introduction to XForms World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) creates Web standards. HTML, XML, SVG, SMIL, etc... over 500 member institutions. co-steered by MIT (USA), KEIO (Japan) and INRIA (France). (vendor and market neutral). XForms. W3C’s future Web forms technology. Ideas from proprietary form languages (FML, Formsheets, XFA,XFDL). Builds upon tested, pre-existing XML technologies rather than re-inventing the wheel. X-Smiles in XForms WG Forms Example : purchaseOrder What’s missing in the current Web forms No separation between content and presentation Validation must be done at the server: more round-trips Constraints and calculations between fields have to be programmed with scripts Most web services live in the XML world. Therefore a component is needed to map HTML forms into XML and vice versa How does XForms solve these problems? Content is separated from the presentation Presentation is defined elsewhere in the document, it is only bound to the content Validation is done in the client using XML schema and inter-data constraints Constraints and calculations are defined declaratively in the markup. Let the XForms processor implement them rather than program them in JavaScript XForms capable client receives and sends XML directly XForms document components Instance – content (XML instance) Model – validation, constraints, calculations User Interface – embedded in host language In addition: Binding – binding between the instance,model and UI Can be seen as a MVC XForms Use Cases Multipage Tax Input forms with