O'Reilly XForms Essentials Book Freebie; Free XForms Validator Now Live

Hello,

  allow me to forward two announcements from Micah
Dubinko posted to the xml-dev mailinglist.

  Announce: XForms Institute Hosts O'Reilly XForms
Essentials
 
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  XForms Institute (http://xformsinstitute.com) is
happy to announce that it is now the official web
distribution point of the O'Reilly book _XForms
Essentials_, released under the GFDL license.

  A new, browser-friendly version, without having to
load the entire book as one big file, can be reached
from:

 http://xformsinstitute.com/essentials/ (General info,
links, and testimonials)

 http://xformsinstitute.com/essentials/browse/
(Browsable online version)

 Bug reports, comments, suggestions, and success
stories should be directed to
[email protected]

 (Source:
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200402/msg00549.html
)


  Announce: Free Online XForms Validation Service
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  XForms Institute (http://xformsinstitute.com) is
proud to announce the launch of a new Web service,
currently in beta: Free Online XForms Validation

  http://xformsinstitute.com/validator/

  As evidenced by a flurry of recent product
announcements, W3C XForms is becoming an
increasingly-important part of strategies for
capturing and managing information.

  This online application provides advanced checks of
XForms Documents, using XHTML or other languages as a
host. Automated checks include:

1. Scanning for namespace-related errors,
unfortunately commonplace in XML development 
2. Performing "lint"-like checks for suspicious, but
technically legal code 
3. A robust check of ID/IDREF connections, even if
these aren't properly DTD-declared 
4. Relax NG validation of individual "islands" of
XForms content within the host document

The site includes samples of valid and invalid XForms
documents for one-click testing, and a bookmarklet to
add XForms Validation capabilities to any JavaScript
browser.

Bug reports, comments, suggestions, and success
stories should be directed to
[email protected]

  (Source:
http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200402/msg00550.html
)

  - Gerald


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