XML News from Monday, May 7, 2007

The W3C XForms working group has posted the "post-last call" working draft of XForms 1.1. Changes since 1.0 include:

• A new namespace URI, http://www.w3.org/2004/xforms/
• power, luhn, current, choose, id and property XPath extension functions
• An email address datatype
• An ID card number datatype
• A prompt action element
• An xforms-close event
• An xforms-submit-serialize event
• Inline rendering of non-text media types

According to John Boyer

The largest task in preparing the post last call editors draft was to properly remove all the diff marks, which is how I found out that you now have 544 reasons to take a look at XForms 1.1.

Another interesting statistic is that the XForms 1.1 specification print preview is 203 pages, which is 30% more content than XForms 1.0 Second Edition, excluding consideration of changes to existing content.

Finally, note that XForms 1.0 Second Edition, which became a Recommendation in March 2006, contained 143 differences relative to the original XForms 1.0 from 2003. This includes 39 pages of errata and a content increase of 10 pages, or 7%. So if it's been a while for you, then perhaps there are nearly 700 reasons to take a look at XForms 1.1.

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