Re: Can XForms handle rich text?

I've put up a dummy XForms that might be exactly what
you're looking for [1]. It renders client-side in your browser
when Flash is available via DENG [2]. The sample instance
is here [3].

Regards,

- Sebastian

[1] http://www.mozquito.com:9898/public-xforms/xformsdoc.xml
[2] http://www.mozquito.com:9898/deng.html?f=public-xforms/xformsdoc.xml
[3]
http://www.mozquito.com:9898/public-xforms/xformsdoc-sample-instance.html

----- Original Message -----
From: <Robert_Barker@vanguard.com>
To: <www-forms@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:42 PM
Subject: Can XForms handle rich text?


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> Thanks for all of your input.
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> Sounds like we will do a little bit of research to see if the Adobe
XML/PDF
> product or SVG might help us out.
>
> Bob Barker
> The Vanguard Group
> ----- Forwarded by Robert Barker/VGI on 08/29/2003 03:41 PM -----
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>                       www-forms-request        Subject:  Can XForms handle
rich text?
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>                       08/29/2003 08:46
>                       AM
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> We are working on a web based solution to capture documents in XML in
order
> to display later in different formats.
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> The issues we are facing are:
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> 1.  How to capture Rich Text like italics, bold, underline, bulleted
items.
> We are trying to use something other than Microsoft Client Software
> Products (Word, Infopath).
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> 2.  How to display the xml in a PDF or html format retaining the nice
> format?  Here are thoughts are to use XSL-FO, but we are looking for a
tool
> to help us create the formatted output.
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> Can XFORMS capture the rich text (bullets, italics, etc.)?
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> Any other thoughts?  Thanks.
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> Bob Barker
> The Vanguard Group.
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Received on Friday, 29 August 2003 22:18:51 UTC