Microsoft Infopath (full name Microsoft Office Infopath) is an application used to develop XML based user forms, first released as part of the Microsoft Office 2003 suite of programs in late 2003. The main feature of InfoPath is its ability to author and view XML documents with support for custom-defined XML schemas. It can connect to external systems using XML Web services through MSXML and the SOAP Toolkit, and back-end and middle-tier systems can be configured to communicate by using Web services standards such as SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL. Additionally, since InfoPath documents are XML based, it is possible to use data from external database sources to bind to form controls instead of InfoPath itself.

External links

• Microsoft Infopath - 'Homepage'
• Office 2003: XML Reference Schemas - 'XSD and XSLT namespaces used by InfoPath'
• Getting started with InfoPath 2003
• InfoPath 2007 Preview
• InfoPath Team Blog

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