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The XForms Basic Profile describes a minimal level of XForms processing tailored to the needs of constrained devices and environments.
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This document is a Proposed Recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium. (For background on this work, please see the XForms Activity Statement.) The XForms Working Group believes XForms 1.0 Basic Profile has been widely reviewed by the community, developers and other W3C groups.
W3C Advisory Committee representatives are invited to send formal review comments by following the instructions in the Call for Review. Through a form available from the Call for Review, Advisory Committee representatives should send comments to the Team-only list team-xforms-review@w3.org until @@99 Juvember 2006, 11pm EDT@@. Through the form, Advisory Committee representatives may also make their comments visible to the Membership (on w3c-ac-forum@w3.org for discussion or w3c-archive@w3.org). After the review the Director will announce the document's disposition. This announcement should not be expected sooner than 21 days after the end of the review.
The public is also invited to send comments about this document to www-forms-editor@w3.org, the public email list for issues related to XForms on the Web. The archive for the list is accessible online.
Publication as a Proposed Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.
The following criteria for exit from Candidate Recommedation have been met:
Sufficient reports of implementation experience have been gathered to demonstrate that XForms Basic Processors based on the specification are implementable and have compatible behavior.
An implementation report showing that there is at least one fully conforming XForms Basic processor.
Formal responses to all comments received by the Working Group have been sent
Accordingly, the only changes made from the Candidate Recommendation are in this Status of this Document section, and in the Editors section.
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The W3C XForms Working Group has released a public test suite for XForms 1.0 Full and Basic along with an implementation report.
This document has been produced by the W3C XForms Working Group as part of the XForms Activity within the W3C Interaction Domain. The authors of this document are the XForms Working Group participants.
1 Overview
2 Differences
3 Conformance
A Normative
References
B Acknowledgements
(Non-Normative)
A variety of devices, with widely varying characteristics and capabilities, have the potential to support XForms [XForms 1.0]. XForms 1.0 defines a conformance profile called XForms Full, suitable for more powerful forms processing, and including processing from several other W3C specifications. This document defines a more limited conformance profile, called XForms Basic.
Note that XForms Basic is a conformance profile for XForms Processors only. A new conformance level is not defined or needed for XForms Documents or XForms Generators. There is only one class of XForms document, with more advanced XForms Processors providing an enhanced experience for end users, for example by providing additional client-side validations.
This document uses the following conventions for namespace prefixes. In practice, any prefix can be used.
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
This document uses terms defined in [RFC 2119].
XForms Basic Profile implementations must return
"basic" from the property method [XForms 1.0] called with the
"conformance-level" parameter string.
XForms Basic conforming processors must meet the conformance requirements defined for XForms 1.0, with the following differences:
XForms Basic Profile processors may support only XML Events Basic [XML Events].
XForms Basic Profile processors may implement a subset of an XML
Schema processor [XML Schema part 1],
[XML Schema part 2], requiring only
what is necessary to process the attribute xsi:type on
instance data for simpleTypes only and the type model
item property for simpleTypes only.
XForms Basic Profile processors may treat XML Schema datatypes
other than the following as xsd:string:
dateTime
time
date
gYearMonth
gYear
gMonthDay
gDay
gMonth
string
boolean
base64Binary
decimal
anyURI
integer
nonPositiveInteger
negativeInteger
long
int
short
byte
nonNegativeInteger
unsignedLong
unsignedInt
unsignedShort
unsignedByte
positiveInteger