OT? Adobe, XForms and XFA

I've been wondering about making PDFs with XForms facets (or PDFs 
containing XForms-compatible instances, I suppose) and checked out the 
draft PDF 1.5 (Acrobat 6) spec at Adobe's site.

This is not useful. Seems Adobe is using some version (2.02) of XFA, 
(the spec of which was submitted to W3C by JetForms before it was 
Accelio before it was Adobe) to represent 'rich text' in Acrobat 
documents beside the PostScript - the manual repeatedly cites 
xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/" and talks about 
supporting version 2.02. The URL doesn't exist, and neither Adobe's 
search engine not Google can find it.

Anyone here have any information about the current XFA schema or 
generally about Adobe's intent in this area?

Mark Barratt
Text Matters

Received on Friday, 18 April 2003 20:56:28 UTC