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In a message dated 29/10/2003 03:24:31 GMT Standard Time, mc@x... writes: I came across this article in Robin Cover's xml.org newswire ... Mike, Apologies for being miles behind in my email. The context is that I raised a question on security or otherwise of XForms. John Boyer gave a long response which included a very positive view on (his own?) XFDL. At the same time, as I recall, he acknowledged that XForms was lacking digital signatures in XForms 1.0. I had pointed out that InfoPath has several security features including a form of digital signature that XForms 1.0 lacks. It seems from one of the follow-ups to your post that was interpreted as stating that InfoPath's security is vastly superior to XForms' security. I don't think I said that in those terms but haven't gone back to check. There is a line of thinking (from the legal profession, in part) that the presentation form (that word again) of a form must be captured as well as the XML (instance) data. That seems to me to be philosophically different from the separation of presentation of data in XForms and, to a slightly lesser extent, in InfoPath. I understood John Boyer to indicate that neither XForms nor InfoPath would meet those requirements for legal documents which he seemed to view positively. I don't find the failure of either XForms or InfoPath to solve this legal situation problematic since neither technology aims, as far as I am aware, to address such scenarios. Nobody in authority at W3C has jumped into this have they? John Boyer who is on the XForms WG commented. Andrew Watt This was cross-posted all over the place and I didn't follow the other threads ... anything interesting come out in them?
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