1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 4 <head> 5 <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> 6 <title>The XSLForms Conceptual Model</title> 7 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> 8 </head> 9 <body> 10 11 <h1>The XSLForms Conceptual Model</h1> 12 13 <p>In applications based on XSLForms, form data is modelled and processed as XML documents as shown in the following diagram:</p> 14 15 <table style="text-align: left; width: 80%;" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5"> 16 <tbody> 17 <tr> 18 <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td> 19 <th style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(193, 255, 102); text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Application<br /> 20 <span class="method">Starting with an initial XML document...</span></th> 21 <th style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">XSLForms<br /> 22 <span class="method">A template is used together with the XML document to produce a Web page...</span></th> 23 <th style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 204, 255); text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Browser<br /> 24 <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> 25 </tr> 26 <tr> 27 <th style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">XSLForms<br /> 28 <span class="method">The incoming form data is converted to an XML document...</span></th> 29 <th style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(193, 255, 102); text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Application<br /> 30 <span class="method">The incoming XML document is processed, validated, and so on...</span></th> 31 <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> 32 <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> 33 </tr> 34 </tbody> 35 </table> 36 37 <p>The XSLForms framework therefore performs two main functions:</p> 38 39 <ul> 40 <li>To present XML documents as Web pages containing forms.</li> 41 <li>To interpret submitted Web form information and to convert that information to XML.</li> 42 </ul> 43 44 </body> 45 </html>
