When you design an InfoPath form, InfoPath creates a .xsn
file, which is stored internally as a cabinet (
.cab
) file because it can actually contain additional subfiles. In other words, the .xsn
file contains all of the necessary subfiles required to assist users in entering data and validating it.
There are two ways to see the files that are contained inside a .xsn
file. The first approach is to open your .xsn
InfoPath form in InfoPath designer. InfoPath designer is simply the Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form template design environment. The second approach requires a little more effort. You can rename your .xsn
files to the .cab
extension and then extract all of the files related to the original .xsn
file to a specified folder. Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 is based on an industry-standard Extensible Markup Language. This allows developers to create customized tags that offer flexibility in organizing and presenting information.