XFA Specification
Preface
Conventions
x
Typeface
monospaced
Identifies …
XML and XFA expressions:
<abc>apple</abc>
Named XML and XFA objects that appear in a paragraph:
A
pageSet
element represents an ordered set of display surfaces.
Note:
Named XFA objects in a paragraph are frequently not tagged
with the monospaced typeface because their identity as such is
assumed to be understood.
italics
Definition of a term:
Fixed data
(boilerplate) includes any text, lines, … that remain
unchanged throughout the life of the form.
Document title:
PDF Reference
Hypertext link
Hypertext links to other parts of this document:
…, as described in
“Conventions” on page ix.
Hypertext links to references in the
“Bibliography” on page 982:
…, as described in the
PDF Reference
[PDF].
Hypertext links to element descriptions that appear in one of this
document’s references:
For more information see the
field
syntax description.
Hypertext links to URLs:
Those notations are available at
Unicode Character Codes
Character codes are given using the notation described in the preface to
The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0.
Those notations are available at
http://www.unicode.org/uni2book/Preface.pdf,
p. xxvii. Character names
are as given in the Unicode character tables.
Document Object Model Notation
A Document Object Model (DOM) is a representation of tree-structured data inside a computer’s memory.
To facilitate discussion of the DOMs used by XFA, this specification uses a particular notation to describe
their contents, as defined below.
Nodes are expressed in the following form:
[node-type (name)]
where
node-type
represents the general type of the node and
name
represents the value of the
name
property of the node.