extract the pdf form xml data

Hello

What are the conditions to be able to extract data from a pdf form? I thought, that it is necessary to have the XML schema data connection and that all fields in the form must be bound to this data connection.

But today I found, that domains can use the right connection 'use name (FieldName)', it's something by default - and that explicit data connection is necessary for this purpose.

What is the common approach to the design of forms, which must be extracted by LC processFormSubmission?

Thank you.

All the data that is retrieved from an XFA form designed will be in xml format. The question then becomes how to control the format of the data that results. By default, the xml structure will follow the hierarchy (it is the Fieldname binding or binding normal use). If you want the data to follow a particular structure (so that you can use it with other systems that have a specific format) so that's when you would use sample XML or a schema in the data connection. Then by nodes of connection in the connection data in the fields, the form knows how to create the desired structure. If the structure is unimportant, then just stick with normal links and that no data connection is necessary.

Hope that helps

Paul

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