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Web services are useful for real time form population. Instead of the form being submitted to
the server, the server filling in the form data, then returning the form, a Web services
Description Language (WSDL) document can populate the form in real time. Web services
can be called from within the XFDL language. Through embedding a WSDL document within
a form, the API automatically creates XFDL function calls that represent the valid ports within
the WSDL document.
5.6.2 Importing the WSDL file
When you embed a WSDL document within a form, the functions defined in the WSDL
document become availab ...