Designing Forms for SharePoint and InfoPath: Using InfoPath Designer 2010, Second Edition
by Scott Roberts, Hagen Green, Jessica Meats
Preface
It Just Makes Sense
Over the past decade or so, Extensible Markup Language (XML) has become more widely used than ever before as a means of transferring data between applications and even between organizations. XML provides a standard protocol with which these applications and organizations can communicate. Using XML Schema, a company can define a standard structure for its data that can then be used across multiple departments and organizations. This structured data enables developers to easily create applications that can communicate with each other without much effort.
In addition, most organizations use forms in one way or another, whether to enter a purchase request, submit expense report information, or track weekly status. If you ...
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