Chapter 3. Electronic Forms

   

S hifting through the morning mail, I cannot help but notice how our society relies on forms. There is a tax declaration form, the announcement for an e-commerce conference comes with a registration form, there are a couple of invoices, and there is a royalties statement (so it's not all bad news).

Companies and administrations stack forms in all their communications. We receive information on forms (bank statements, wages bill, invoices) and we are requested to fill out forms throughout the day: to buy goods (order form), to pay for them (check or card vouchers), to declare revenues (tax forms), to claim benefits (insurance forms), to borrow books at the library (reader forms), and so on.

The forms, of course, have found their way online. Many organizations make their forms available for download as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) or Word files. You can print them, fill them out, and mail or fax them. Other companies encourage you to fill in HTML forms to enter data directly in their databases.

In this chapter, you see how an XML editor can replace a word processor or a browser. This is advantageous because it produces an XML document (which can be parsed, read into a database, transformed through a style sheet, or generally manipulated through the myriad of XML tools available to us) in a familiar word processor “like environment.

   


Applied XML Solutions
Applied XML Solutions
ISBN: 0672320541
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1999
Pages: 142

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