Automatic Data Validation

Conventional HTML forms require data validation. Typically, JavaScript is used in the browser, and the server side uses the server-side language applicable to the chosen server platform. To learn more about each of the three approaches to validation available in InfoPath 2003, see Chapter 10, “Validating Form Data.”

W3C XML Schema Validation

The W3C XML Schema language is an XML application language that can specify the permitted structure of a class of XML documents. InfoPath uses at least one W3C XML Schema document for each form template.

W3C XML Schema can also specify constraints on the data types allowed as the values of certain XML constructs.

Both the structural and data-type checking can be automatically carried ...

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