Publisher review:FormSIX package is a set of tools and suggestions for interchanging simple HTML FORM data between Web Browser and Web Server in XML format. FormSIX package is a set of tools and suggestions for interchanging simple HTML FORM data between Web Browser and Web Server in XML format.For a bigger purpose, FormSIX aids replacing/extending regular CGI with XML by providing client-side JS modules for composing valid XML document. For a smaller purpose, FormSIX helps testing out Internet system design by providing a tool for generating front-end prototype even to a not-yet XML enabled back-end. (FormSIX can even be used to generate Web-based interface to SOAP service.) In fact, the author finds FormSIX pretty handy when it comes to designing DTD. The followings are the features of FormSIX:
- Generation of Web Form HTML code either statically or dynamically. Included is a set of custom JSP tags for dynamic Web Form generation.
- Generation of JS Code for Web form data validation. Currently, most validation rules are specified using the f6 configuration file. In the future, FormSiX may be enhanced to extract validation rules from XML Schema.
- Generation of JS Code to compose XML document from Web form data.
- Generation of JS Code to parse XML document and initialize the form accordingly.
- Generation of XML Schema Definition (XSD) for form validation by validating XML parser.
- Support different levels of customizations to control the look of the generated HTML code.
- Using different CSS theme for the look - coloring - of the form.
- Using the order directive to control the layout order of the elements.
- Using different "layout-templates" for composing the layout of the form.
- Using "page-template" to wrap the form with any HTML constructs.
- Using "page-template" to completely control the look of the whole page.
- Customization of form data validation.
- Customization of error reporting.
- Customization of XML document submission mechanism.
Support different levels of customizations to control the flow of the generated JS code.
- Support some DHTML effects for show/hide optional sections.
- Support of an expression language to add another level of flexibility to the form generation processes:
- All parameters/directives specified in the f6 file can be an expression.
- The expression language allows adding "page-template" preprocessing markups to include/exclude sections of HTML code at generation time.
FormSIX 1.0 is a XML script for Other scripts design by Trevor Lee.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Mac OS.
Operating system:Windows / Mac OS
FormSIX 1.0 script details 
