XFA Specification
Glossary
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symbol
is a place-holder that typically represents
one or more characters that occur in the data.
plain text
Text that does not contain any markup signifying
formatting, hence, text that is not rich text.
prevailing locale
static form
An XFA form that has a set number of subforms.
Unlike
dynamic forms,
static forms cannot add
subforms to accommodate additional data.
T
template
The
locale
supplied from the following sources (in priority
order) the picture clause, the field or subform
locale property, or the
ambient locale.
The
prevailing locale affects input parsing and output
formatting. It also affects the results of FormCalc
functions.
See
form template.
Template DOM
The Template DOM is the tree-structured
representation of the template for the form.
During the data binding process it supplies the
prototype objects and relationships between
objects which are copied into the Form DOM.
Hence the Template DOM dictates the structure of
the resulting merged form.
R
rich text
Text containing markup signifying formatting such
as bold and underline.
U
UI
A type of element that describes how data should
be presented to a form user. UI elements are
defined in the XFA template grammar.
S
script
A set of instructions for processing data or
initiating events such as data exchange with a
server. In XFA scripts are not necessary for common
electronic form functionality, but scripts may be
used to provide greater control or meet unusual
needs.
SOM (XFA Script Object Model)
A model for referencing values, properties and
methods within a particular Document Object
Model (DOM).
SOM resolver
A software component that interprets a SOM
expression, yielding the set of all nodes that match
the expression. The resulting set may be empty.
source set
ADO database queries, used to describe data
binding to ADO data sources
V
variable content
Data associated with an exclusion group or field.
Such data, which varies throughout the life of the
form, may be provided by any of the following: the
template as a default value, the person filling out
the form, an external source, a calculation, and
other sources. See also
fixed content (boilerplate).
W
Web service
An automated service provided by an external
(non-XFA) processor and accessed using the
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) [SOAP
1.1]
and Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
[WSDL
Such services are often made available
to all comers across the Internet, hence the name
"web service".