Reviews for Xforms: XML Powered Web Forms

1. Why XForms

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, April 12th, 2004

   Raman has put a good deal of thought into the problems addressed by XForms, and each assertion he makes is well argued and justified. XForms ought not be read as a description of XForms syntax, nor is it really a tutorial on how to use XForms, though it is stuffed with worked examples. Rather, Raman's book is a treatise that sets out the desirable characteristics of electronic forms, especially those deployed over the Web. By explaining requirements, and illustrating, by means of those examples, how XForms meets his requirements, Raman has produced a compelling justification for the design of XForms. He has also gone a long way towards providing a clear set of criteria against which other forms technologies might be measured.