How to Read This Book

This book is targeted primarily at Web authors wishing to use XForms in their work. It is also meant to help IT specialists transition from using legacy HTML forms for their Web projects. The book has been written to complement the W3C XForms specification, not to replace it.

Each chapter of this book has a specific theme and concludes with a section that presents the material covered by that chapter at a glance . The book is organized in three parts :

Welcome	The first part gives a bird's-eye view of XForms and the various XML standards that it uses.
Components	The second part details the various components making up the XForms architecture.
Emerging Areas	The final part covers the relevance of XForms in the areas of Web services, multimodal interaction, and accessibility.