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Gavin McKenzie writes: > But regulations and legal requirements around the presentation of > forms, which often constitute documents of record with all the > usual legal requirements, aren't going away anytime soon. I agree -- it's a small (from an enterprise perspective) but useful niche market: quite large enough to keep JetForm and a couple of competitors busy (and wealthy) for a while, but too small to excite the predatory instincts of the big players. I expect, though, that there will be relatively few *new* requirements based around the layout of paper forms, so there is a solid ceiling on the market's growth. Given the relatively small number of players and the limited need for interoperability in the looks-like-paper forms market, it's probably not a good target for W3C standardization, though someone like OASIS might want to take a stab at it. Perhaps a better goal would be to ensure that XSL is powerful enough to handle all of the layout requirements for forms. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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