Documentation

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User guide

1. Introduction to betterFORM
2. Why use betterFORM?
3. System Requirements
4. Installation
5. Working with forms
   1. What’s XForms authoring?
   2. Some XForms basics
   3. Some guidelines to writing forms
   4. Page layout
   5. Styling controls
   6. The mighty ‘appearance’ attribute
   7. Using Schema datatypes
6. Handling data
7. Modularizing forms
8. JavaScript API
9. Model to Model communication
10. Best practices
11. Useful links

Developer guide

1. Introduction
2. Usages of betterFORM
3. Developer resources
4. The Architecture
5. Development Requirements
6. Working with the sources
7. The source tree explained
8. Building betterFORM
9. Setting up a project with betterFORM
10. Integration scenarios
11. Short introduction to the XFormsProcessor API
12. Zaphod – two webapps side-by-side
13. Configuration
14. howto enable SSL
15. Extending betterFORM
    1. Connectors
    2. User agents
    3. XPath functions
    4. custom controls and containers

XML application guide

1. Introduction to betterFORM XRX
2. Installation
3. Getting started
4. The architecture
5. Building the sources
6. Deploying an arbitrary version of betterFORM into eXist
7. Structuring your XML application

FAQ – Frequently asked questions