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W3C Releases XForms

Posted by timothy on from the own-your-own-mint dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "On the heels of several other releases, the W3C has released XForms as a Candidate Recommendation. Coverage here and here. XForms is the way-better version of HTML forms -- it's XML-based and includes built-in client-side validation and calculations, without scripting. It is expected to replace old-fashioned HTML forms in XHTML 2.0. It's also being viewed by many as the standards-based alternative to Microsoft's XDocs. Now's your chance to try it out and submit your comments, before the official Recommendation comes out in a few months."

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  1. Re:Nonono.. don't client validate! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Never trust the client to do validation of data!!!!

    Of course not. Just because you don't trust the client doesn't mean you don't let them. Client-side validation is for the benefit of the client. The nice thing is, now that validation is in the form definition, you can use the same definition to perform the server-side validation as well.

  2. Re:Nonono.. don't client validate! by Spy+Hunter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You still validate the data on the server. Duh. The idea with client-side validation is that the browser can tell the user what's wrong with the form while they're typing in the data instead of after they hit the submit button and get a form page back with big red text telling them they did it wrong.

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