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RE: RE: XDocs and XForms?

• To: 'Dare Obasanjo' <dareo@m...>, Mike Champion <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: RE: XDocs and XForms?
• From: Micah Dubinko <MDubinko@c...>
• Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:26:30 -0700

For comparison/research, here's some eWeek coverage of XForms:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,519170,00.asp

.micah


-----Original Message-----
From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:50 AM
To: Mike Champion; xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE: RE:  XDocs and XForms?


 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@x...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> 
> 10/15/2002 2:19:45 PM, "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...> wrote:
> 
> >The best write ups about XDocs I've seen online were at 
> >http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,609994,00.asp and 
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/Oct02/10-09OfficeFamil
y.asp respectively. 
>
>
> Neither mention XForms.  

I had no idea they were supposed to. Forgive me but I was not aware that
there was supposed to be a linkage between XDocs and XForms. 

> I'm wondering what differentiates XDocs and XForms in terms of
requirements, usage scenarios, functionality, etc.  

I'll try to have an answer to this question in next month's Extreme XML.


> I'm also wondering why XForms is part of Office rather than IE.

I assume you meant XDocs and not XForms since I haven't seen any
announcement of XForms support in Office. XDocs is an Office application
that grew out of what was once NetDocs. Again eWeek covered this in
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,114241,00.asp 


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