XML News from Thursday, August 20, 2009

The W3C XForms working group has posted the proposed recommendation 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

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