XForms

OpenOffice.org 3 Writer Guide

Chapter 15: Using Forms in Writer

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• Creating a simple form
• Form controls reference
• Example: a simple form
• Accessing data sources
• Advanced form customization
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XForms are a new type of web form, developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). OpenOffice.org 3 supports the XForms 1.0 open standard for creating web forms with XML.

In OpenOffice.org, an XForms document is a special type of Writer document. XForms use the same controls as the ordinary forms described in this chapter.

After you create and save an XForms document, you can open the document, fill out the form, and submit the changes to a server.

A detailed discussion of XForms is beyond the scope of this chapter, as it is related more to databases than word processing. This file on J. David Eisenberg’s website is a good tutorial introduction to XForms in OpenOffice.org: http://books.evc-cit.info/xforms_ooo_06_08_15.odt.