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Forms are a part of our lives. They are used day by day in the ordinary life, but online they have a special place. They are the primary way of collecting information, being used for search engines, polls, surveys, electronic commerce, and even on-line applications. Every type of user-interaction on-line is done through web-forms of some sort. However, this technology is already showing it's age. Being created 5 years before XML, it has limitations, that make developer's and user's lives harder. Among them are: As forms are older than XML,

The Forms working group is chartered by the W3C to develop the next generation of forms technology for the world wide web. The mission is to address the patterns of intricacy, dynamism, multi-modality, and device independence that have become prevalent in Web Forms Applications around the world. The technical reports of this working group have the root name XForms due to the use of XML to express the vocabulary of the forms technology developed by the working group. The Forms Working Group is comprised of W3C members and invited experts. The Working