1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 2 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 3 <head> 4 5 6 7 8 <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 <title>The XSLForms Conceptual Model</title> 16 <meta name="generator" content="amaya 8.1a, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/" /> 17 18 19 20 21 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> 22 </head> 23 24 25 <body> 26 <h1>The XSLForms Conceptual Model</h1> 27 28 <p>In applications based on XSLForms, form data is processed as XML documents as shown in the following diagram:</p> 29 <table style="text-align: left; width: 80%;" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5"> 30 <tbody> 31 <tr> 32 <td align="undefined" valign="undefined"></td> 33 <th style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(193, 255, 102); text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Application<br /> 34 <span class="method">Starting with an initial XML document...</span></th> 35 <th style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">XSLForms<br /> 36 <span class="method">A template is used together with the XML document to produce a Web page...</span></th> 37 <th style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 204, 255); text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Browser<br /> 38 <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> 39 </tr> 40 <tr> 41 <th style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">XSLForms<br /> 42 <span class="method">The incoming form data is converted to an XML document...</span></th> 43 <th style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(193, 255, 102); text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Application<br /> 44 <span class="method">The incoming XML document is processed, validated, and so on...</span></th> 45 <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> 46 <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> 47 </tr> 48 </tbody> 49 </table> 50 <p>The XSLForms framework therefore performs two main functions:</p> 51 <ul> 52 <li>To present XML documents as Web pages containing forms.</li> 53 <li>To interpret submitted Web form information and to convert that information to XML.</li> 54 </ul> 55 </body> 56 </html>