
12 IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application
1.3.1 XFDL
Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL), developed by UWI.Com and Tim Bray, is an
application of XML that allows organizations to move their paper-based forms systems to the
Internet while maintaining the necessary attributes of paper-based transaction records. XFDL
was designed for implementation in business-to-business electronic commerce and
intra-organizational information transactions.
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XFDL is a highly-structured XML protocol designed specifically to solve the body of problems
associated with digitally representing paper forms on ...