Resources XForms Resources Introduction to XForms XForms are the next generation of Web Forms. XForms are richer and more flexible than HTML forms. XForms use a user interface with defined data bound controls XForms use XML and Unicode to exchange data XForms are the successors of HTML Forms HTML forms are an important part of many Web applications today.
Forms make it possible for Web applications to interact with Web users.
With HTML forms, a user can visit a Web page, add information to the page, and submit the page to a Web server. One very common example, taken from e-commerce, is when a user fills in an HTML form to order items from a shopping list. Today, seven years after HTML forms became a part of the HTML specification, the Web is a place where millions of users are doing complex transactions that are starting to exceed the limitations of HTML forms. XForms are necessary successors to HTML forms, providing a much richer and presentation independent way of handling interactive Web transactions. XForms Separate Data from Presentation XForms uses XML for data transport and HTML for data display.