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<div class="callout-box"><b><a class="external" href="http://xformsinstitute.com/essentials/browse/">XForms Essentials</a></b><br>
An online book giving you a guided tour of XForms.</div>
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<div><b>XForms</b> is the future of online forms as envisioned by the W3C. Drawing on other W3C standards like <a href="pt/XML_Schema">XML Schema</a>, <a href="pt/XPath">XPath</a>, and <a href="pt/XML_Events">XML Events</a>, XForms tries to address some of the limitations with the current <a href="pt/HTML">HTML</a> forms model. Other strengths that XForms brings to the table is the separation of data from presentation, strong data typing, the ability to submit <a href="pt/XML">XML</a> data to servers instead of name/value pairs, and a descriptive way to author forms so that they can be displayed by a wide variety of devices. XForms is a <a class="external" href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/">W3C specification</a>.</div>
<div class="callout-box"><b><a class="external" href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XForms">XForms Tutorial and Cookbook</a></b><br>
XForms in Wikibook Format - Over 50 examples tested with FireFox.</div>
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<p>XForms support can be added to Firefox and SeaMonkey by installing the <a class="external" href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xforms">Mozilla XForms Extension</a>.
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<h4 id="Documentation" name="Documentation"> <a>Documentation</a> </h4>
<dl><dt> <a href="pt/XForms/Form_Troubleshooting">Troubleshooting tips for XForms</a>
</dt><dd> <small>A small collection of tips for troubleshooting common problems with XForms forms.</small>
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<dl><dt> <a href="pt/XForms/Mozilla_XForms_Specials">Mozilla XForms specials</a>
</dt><dd> <small>Explains where, and how, Mozilla XForms deviates or extends the XForms 1.0 specification.</small>
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<dl><dt> <a href="pt/XForms/Custom_Controls">XForms custom controls</a>
</dt><dd> <small>Custom controls lets the form author "skin" each XForms control through XBL, and create f.x. an SVG <code>input</code> control.</small>
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<dl><dt> <a href="pt/XForms/User_preferences">XForms user preferences</a>
</dt><dd> <small>A description of the <code>about:config</code> variables that XForms uses.</small>
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<dl><dt> <a href="pt/XForms/API_Reference">XForms API reference</a>
</dt><dd> <small>XForms interfaces documentation.</small>
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<dl><dt> <a href="pt/XForms/User_Interface_Elements">XForms UI Elements reference</a>
</dt><dd> <small>XForms user interface elements documentation.</small>
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<h4 id="Community" name="Community"> Community </h4>
<ul><li> View Mozilla forums...
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<ul><li> <a class="link-irc" href="irc://irc.mozilla.org/xforms">#xforms channel on irc.mozilla.org</a>
</li><li> <a class="external" href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/">W3C Forms mailing list</a>
</li><li> <a class="external" href="http://beaufour.dk/blog">XForms development weblog</a>
</li><li> <a href="pt/XForms/Community">Other community links...</a>
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<h4 id="Tools" name="Tools"> Tools </h4>
<ul><li> <a class="external" href="http://xformsinstitute.com/validator/">XForms validator</a>
</li><li> <a class="external" href="http://beaufour.dk/index.php?sec=misc&amp;pagename=xforms">XForms Buddy</a>
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<h4 id="Related_Topics" name="Related_Topics"> Related Topics </h4>
<dl><dd> <a href="pt/Extensions">Extensions</a>, <a href="pt/HTML">HTML</a>, <a href="pt/XHTML">XHTML</a>, <a href="pt/XML">XML</a>, <a href="pt/XPath">XPath</a>
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