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NU Taxon Update_Sept 2005

Difference between version 9 and version 5:

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- **Concrete [XForms|http://www.w3c.org/xforms] implementations not quite up to the job yet (June 2005)
- **XForms works by taking a schema plus a corresponding xml 'instance' file to generate a forms document. The implementations so far (formsplayer, chiba, novell xforms) have trouble with 'switch' and 'optional' elements in a schema, tcs contains both. Revisions to XForms 1.1 will solve some of these difficulties (ability to insert optional elements into xml instance).
+ **Concluded that concrete [XForms|http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/] implementations not quite up to the job yet (June 2005)
+ **XForms works by taking a schema plus a corresponding xml 'instance' file to generate a forms document. The implementations so far (formsplayer, chiba, novell xforms) have difficulties with 'switch' and 'optional' elements in a schema - tcs contains both. Revisions to [XForms 1.1|http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/] will solve some of these issues (ability to insert optional elements into xml instance) if this technology is pursued in the future.

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