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2005-07-22 paulb file changeset files shortlog [project @ 2005-07-22 18:26:38 by paulb] Tidied up the function names and added some API documentation. Added child-element and child-attribute functions for coherent references to potentially non-existent nodes in the form data.
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  <title>The XSLForms Conceptual Model</title>
 
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<h1>The XSLForms Conceptual Model</h1>
 
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<p>In&nbsp;applications based on XSLForms, form data is modelled and processed as XML documents as shown in the following diagram:</p>
 
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      <th style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(193, 255, 102); text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Application<br />
 
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      <span class="method">Starting with an initial XML document...</span></th>
 
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      <th style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">XSLForms<br />
 
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      <span class="method">A template is used together with the XML document to produce a Web page...</span></th>
 
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      <th style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 204, 255); text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Browser<br />
 
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      <span class="method">The Web page contains a form which is filled out by users of the application and submitted back to the application...</span></th>
 
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      <th style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">XSLForms<br />
 
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      <span class="method">The incoming form data is converted to an XML document...</span></th>
 
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      <th style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(193, 255, 102); text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Application<br />
 
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      <span class="method">The incoming XML document is processed, validated, and so on...</span></th>
 
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      <th style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">XSLForms<span class="method">A template is used together with the new XML document to produce a Web page...</span></th>
 
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      <th style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 204, 255); text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Browser<span class="method">An updated Web page is shown to the user. The page may contain a form which may be filled out and submitted...</span></th>
 
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<p>The XSLForms framework therefore performs two main functions:</p>
 
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  <li>To present XML documents as Web pages containing forms.</li>
 
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  <li>To interpret submitted Web form information and to convert that information to XML.</li>
 
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