IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application

32 IBM Workplace Forms: Guide to Building and Integrating a Sample Workplace Forms Application

Next, Figure 3-3 shows a conceptual view of a Workplace Form document model.

Figure 3-3 Conceptual view of a Workplace Form document model

In Figure 3-3 above, note that it is a conceptual representation of an IBM Workplace Form.

The form provides separation of user-interface (also referred to as presentation layer) and

data model (from 0 → N discrete data instances).

In the above example, the form data model consists of two data instances. In practice, the

form could contain no data instance at all, or many different data instances. Data Instance #1

is used for form prepopulation while Data Instance #2 is used for data integration to a

Line-Of-Business system.

3.2.2 Support for arbitrary XML instances

Support for arbitrary XML instances refers to the fact that you can take an XML schema from

any external system (or alternately make create your own), generate a compliant XML data

instance, then embed that instance into the form. The elements of this instance are related to

other aspects of the form by

binds, shown in green in the figure above. The form can contain

0 → n instances.