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Forms-XML

So far, many user interfaces for XML data (documents) have been constructed from scratch for specific XML vocabularies and applications. The tool support for user interfaces for XML data is inadequate. Forms-XML is an interactive component invoked by applications for generating user interfaces for prescribed XML vocabularies automatically. Based on a given XML schema, the component generates a hierarchy of HTML forms for users to interact with and update XML data compliant with the given schema. The user interface Forms-XML generates is very simple with an abundance of guidance and hints to the user, and can be customized by user interface designers as well as developers.
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Forms-XML is an interactive component (ActiveX control) to be invoked by applications that can generate HTML form-based user interfaces for prescribed XML schemas for users to interact with and update XML data compliant with the schemas. The user interface Forms-XML generates can be customized by an interface designer by using the Forms-XML Designer.

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Forms-XML_Control.zip
OS Windows Me/2000/XP or higher,
2000/XP requires Administrator privilege
Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
CPU 200 MHZ
Memory 512MB
Disk Space< 3 MB

Forms-XML Designerˇ@

Forms-XML Designer is a visual interface design tool specialized in user interfaces for XML data. Interface designers use the Designer to create desired form-based user interfaces for prescribed XML vocabularies. The artifacts the Designer produces serve as inputs to the Forms-XML component, which then generates the desired user interfaces at the runtime.

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Forms-XML_Designer.zip

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OS Windows Me/2000/XP or higher,
2000/XP requires Administrator privilege
Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
CPU 200 MHZ
Memory 512MB
Disk Space 10 MB, 20 MB for installation

XML Interaction Service
Interactions with human users are a crucial part of many workflow applications. In workflow or business process management specifications, such as WSBPEL, all data are represented as XML. As a consequence, many human tasks simply support users to create or update XML data compliant with a schema. We propose the XML interaction service as a generic Web service for use by human tasks that provides HTML form-based Web interfaces for users to interact with and update schema-compliant XML data. In addition, a visual interface design tool is provided for interface designers to create and customize the Web interfaces an XML interaction service supports.
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XInteractDemoWin32.zip The installer for win32 platform
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XInteractDemo.tar.gz The installer for all java-enabled platform
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InstallNotes.txt The installation guide
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QuickStart.txt The quick start user guide
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NOTICE-XInteractDemo.txt The license of third party components

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