RE: RE: [xml-dev] XDocs and XForms?

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

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> From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@xegesis.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:32 AM
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> 10/15/2002 2:19:45 PM, "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> >The best write ups about XDocs I've seen online were at 
> >http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,609994,00.asp and 
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/Oct02/10-09OfficeFamil
y.asp respectively. 
>
>
> Neither mention XForms.  

I had no idea they were supposed to. Forgive me but I was not aware that
there was supposed to be a linkage between XDocs and XForms. 

> I'm wondering what differentiates XDocs and XForms in terms of
requirements, usage scenarios, functionality, etc.  

I'll try to have an answer to this question in next month's Extreme XML.


> I'm also wondering why XForms is part of Office rather than IE.

I assume you meant XDocs and not XForms since I haven't seen any
announcement of XForms support in Office. XDocs is an Office application
that grew out of what was once NetDocs. Again eWeek covered this in
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,114241,00.asp 


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