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PAD - Provided by the Association of Software Professionals
PAD is the Portable Application Description, and it helps authors provide product descriptions and specifications to online sources in a standard way, using a standard data format that will allow webmasters and program librarians to automate program listings. PAD saves time for both shareware authors and webmasters.
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PAD Extensions Specification 1
PAD Extensions Specification 1
The HTML document format used for creating extensions is very straight
forward, just a simple HTML form. You do not even need to add a SUBMIT button to
the form. Each extension is based on the TITLE tag. Here you
see GIZMO is present, this will create a grouping in the final PAD file that is
wrapped by <GIZMO> and </GIZMO> tags.
Each field in the extension group is also prefaced with GIZMO, in this
case there is one field: GIZMO_Blanket_CD_Permission.
Now when the Gizmo Corporation reads in your XML PAD file it can pull out its
own extensions to find out if you gave permission to them include your product
on their CD!
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>GIZMO</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<H2>GIZMO's XML PAD Extensions Form</H2>
Along with the Standard Information entered with your XML PAD we would also like
to ask the following questions:
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="GIZMO_FORM" VALUE="Y">
<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="GIZMO_Blanket_CD_Permission" VALUE="Y" CHECKED>
Can we include this product on our CD if desired?
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Note that there is a dependency between the "<TITLE>GIZMO</TITLE>"
tag and the "<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="GIZMO_FORM" VALUE="Y">" tag.
In particular, if the INPUT NAME field does not have the name of the TITLE
tag + the text '_FORM', then the form values are not saved at the next
time PADGen is run. The example above is correct and this note is pointing out
the linkage in the naming.
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