From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> It's for the government and has to be ready in oh about 28 years from now,
> so supposedly this stuff is implemented by then. Planning ahead and all
> that, you know 
>

If only. Things are moving fast. You Finns & the Germans are now on
board too. You're using the Compound Document Architecture which is
compatible. I think the french may go for cda as well but us, the dutch,
the yanks (federal but hey it's a start & includes VA & CDC etc) ,
the ozzies & the canadians are all now basically in lockstep. A long
& usefull week in San Diego CA. The Asians are now getting interested
too.

We had some fairly frantic types from the US feds chatting to us coz all
the louisiana medical records were stored on paper in basements....which
are fully of water & toxic mud.....coz..along came a big girl called
katerina. Apparantly that nice Mr Bush was none too chuffed.

Mmmmmmmmmm.

Now they don't seem to want the next major disaster to be a repeat event.

Adam


>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (...or maybe they just don't want anyone to be able to use it?)
>
> "Rich"  wrote in message news:433c193f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>    Do you really have a requirement that you must use something for which
> implementations or practical implementations do not exist?  Who sets these
> requirements for you?
>
>    I did try the search you suggested and found
> http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/documents/TSCv6.2_2005_7_14_final.pdf which
> contains the statement
>
>     1.. . As with other applications e-Forms have to comply with XML, but no
> specific e-Forms specifications are mandated in the e-GIF.
>
> Rich
>
>   "Adam"  wrote in message
> news:433baaff$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>   Mostly a question for Rich S, but others can join in (like I can stop
>   you ).
>
>   We have a requirement that going forward most of our forms should be of
>   the XHTML+XFORM variety (google on UK gov e-gif & xform).
>
>   Moz & others seem to be working towards native support for XForms but
>   all I can find wrt IE are some plugins which will undoubtably do the job
>   but require downloadng etc.etc.
>
>   Equally OpenOffice2 has a quite good XForms builder & editor
& there is
>   a fairly neat thing from IBM for eclipse.
>
>   However can find zilch from MS. Any new wrt IE7 or even your MS dev
>   tools & XForms?
>
>
>   Adam
>
>

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