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FlexForm field

Renders a FlexForm element. Essentially, this consists in a hierarchically organized set of fields which will have their values saved into a single field in the database, stored as XML.

The general idea is: There is a data structure that defines which and how single fields should be displayed, re-using all the TCA column type possibilities. The actual values of single fields are then stored in an XML representation within this "flex" field.