This chapter describes how to create XML skinnable forms, which are forms that generate XForms-compliant XML and are normally formatted using an XSLT (extensible stylesheet language transformations) skin. The chapter also provides information on the format of the XML that Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 generates for transformation by XSLT skins.
You can use XML skinnable forms with the skins that ColdFusion MX provides without having any knowledge of either XML or XSLT. Therefore, the first two sections in this chapter do not require that you have any knowledge of these technologies. The rest of this chapter, however, assumes that you have some familiarity with XML and XSLT. The chapter does not provide an introduction to, or detailed information on, writing XSLT, and it does not document XML. For information on using XML with ColdFusion MX, see Using XML and WDDX.