What is XForms?

XForms is a relatively recent standard from the W3C, designed to allow us to create sophisticated user interfaces using mark-up. This means that defining a user interface is much the same as using HTML, except that XForms has been designed from the ground up to cope with many of the things that we usually have to dive into script to do.

And XForms doesn't just make it easy to replace script in our applications, it also provides us with the means to manipulate and validate XML; unlike most languages that you might have used, XForms brings XML right into the heart of the language.

In this section we'll look at some of the things you can do with XForms, but if you want to jump right in and look at some mark-up, feel free to skip to Feet First...Some Basics