- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (3 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0596003692
- ISBN-13: 978-0596003692
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 705,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The use of forms on the web is so commonplace that most user interactions involve some type of form. XForms--a combination of XML and forms--offers a powerful alternative to HTML-based forms. By providing excellent XML integration, including XML Schema, XForms allows developers to create flexible, web-based user-input forms for a wide variety of platforms, including desktop computers, handhelds, information appliances, and more.
XForms Essentials is an introduction and practical guide to the new XForms specification. Written by Micah Dubinko, a member of the W3C XForms working group and an editor of the specification, the book explains the how and why of XForms, showing readers how to take advantage of them without having to write their own code. You'll learn how to integrate XForms with both HTML and XML vocabularies, and how XForms can simplify the connection between client-based user input and server-based processing.
XForms Essentials begins with a general introduction to web forms, including information on history and basic construction of forms. The second part of the book serves as a reference manual to the XForms specification. The third section offers additional hints, guidelines, and techniques for working with XForms. Topics covered in the book include:
- creating XForms files in a text or XML editor
- converting existing forms (electronic or paper) to XForms
- collecting XML data from users in a user-friendly way
- reducing the amount of JavaScript needed within browser interfaces
- increasing the security and reliability of your current forms system by combining client-side and server-side checks into a common code base
- creating interactive websites using the latest standard technology
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XForms Essentials is an introduction and practical guide to the new XForms specification. Written by Micah Dubinko, a member of the W3C XForms working group and an editor of the specification, the book explains the how and why of XForms, showing readers how to take advantage of them without having to write their own code. You'll learn how to integrate XForms with both HTML and XML vocabularies, and how XForms can simplify the connection between client-based user input and server-based processing. If you work with forms, HTML, or XML information, XForms Essentials will provide you with a much simpler route to more sophisticated interactions with users.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
XForms is cool, and this book shows you why!,
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This review is from: XForms Essentials (Paperback)
The author is a member of the W3C XForms Working Group, so he knows what he is talking about. This guide is a great starting point for getting to grips with XForms whether or not you are aleady familiar with HTML forms. This is a much better place to start than the XForms spec, which is pretty inpenetrable to your average forms author. Micah takes you through the basics, shows you where XForms fits with other W3C standards, and gets you started with authoring. Once you are feeling a bit more confident this book serves as an excellent reference, with enough examples for you to copy and try out for your self. The great thing about the book is that there isn't too much of it. It gives a good grounding in the subject without any waffle.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Useful but very light on detail and examples,
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This review is from: XForms Essentials (Paperback)
Whilst I acknowledge that this is an "Essentials" book I found it very light on detail and lacking useful examples. Parts of the book seem to have been lifted directly from the W3C XForms specification, yet you still need the specification to get the most out of XForms, not to mention some of the examples in the specification are more useful than those in the book. In particular I was very disappointed by Chapter 7 - Actions and Events; Actions and events are probably the most useful and difficult part of XForms and this chapter was really weak.
There are few XForms books available and this is not a bad starting point but it certainly will not be all you need to be productive with XForms. I would probably not recommend this book but point people at the freely available information on the web until a better book comes along.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential XForms read,
By Mr. M. J. Seaborne - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: XForms Essentials (Paperback)
The author is a member of the W3C XForms Working Group, so he knows what he is talking about. This guide is a great starting point for getting to grips with XForms whether or not you are already familiar with HTML forms. This is a much better place to start than the XForms spec, which is pretty impenetrable to your average forms author. Micah takes you through the basics, shows you where XForms fits with other W3C standards, and gets you started with authoring. Once you are feeling a bit more confident this book serves as an excellent reference. One of the really nice things about the book is that there isn't too much of it. It gives a good grounding in the subject without any waffle. In the course of my work I have spoken to several others who have similarly found Micahs book to be an essential starting point to XForms, and a solid reference book.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb Book,
By Kurt Cagle - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: XForms Essentials (Paperback)
XForms is, very quietly, changing the way that we view the web, putting it on a much more solid XML based footing. While the specification is difficult to comprehend at the best of times, the power of the specification is such that it provides a solid basis on which to build the XML web.Micah Dubinko's book cuts through a great deal of complexity of the form and illustrates in clear, concise examples how the most critical features are used, elucidates much of the reasoning behind how certain features evolved (a bonus coming from his days helming the XForms specification itself) and otherwise provides a thorough yet easy to understand introduction to what is undoubtably one of the most important specifications to come out of the W3C. My company is using XForms to build significant portions of our infrastructure upon my guidance, and I hand a copy of this book out to each one of my programmers. If you deal with XML at all, this book should absolutely be part of your library. Kurt Cagle 10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Read the W3C documents instead.,
By Jake Burkey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: XForms Essentials (Paperback)
This book is a poor introduction to XForms. In a text that is only slightly larger than a pamphlet, the author attempts to do much more than simply introduce XForms, and the result is that nothing ends up being explained well.
The relatively few pages of the author's own creation are written in a prose so terse that in some places it reads like gibberish, and the rest of the text is a reference that repeats what is available in the W3C XForms and XPath specifications and the XForms for HTML Authors document. |
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