Government forms mod, output number of forms + 1 on the actual new form

>
> Hello,
>
> I am modifying the government forms example.  On the opening form page there
> is a table with headings:
>
> No.   Date Saved        Name    Birth Date      ID No.  Vehicle
>
> I would like to be able to display the form number (No.) which is
> automatically generated on the front page in my form when I click new form.
> So if there are 2 forms in the table I would like to display a field in my
> form that have the number 3.  On the first page with the table you are using
>
> <xforms:repeat nodeset="instance('documents-instance')/documents/document"
> id="documents-repeat">
>                                <tr>
>                                    <td>
>                                        <xforms:output
> value="count(preceding-sibling::document) + 1"/>
>                                    </td>
>
> To generate the numbers in the column.
>
> How to do I modify one of the form to display this number + 1 on the form
> itself via an xforms:output field?
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
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>
> Hi,
>
> Do you have some example code that I can use? Because I can't figure it out
> and this is the last customization of the government forms example that I
> need for my prototype.
>
> Regards,
>
> John.
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> John,
>
> Sorry, I don't have sample code for this. You could maintain a
> document in eXist with the last sequence number used, and when the
> form is created read and update that number. I would also check if
> eXist does not already provide a facility to do that (similar in
> functionality to the create sequence myseq / myseq.nextval of Oracle).
> But that seems like a lot of trouble to just have a "good looking" id
> to me ;).
>
> Alex
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:42 PM, JohnBampton <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you have some example code that I can use? Because I can't figure it out
> > and this is the last customization of the government forms example that I
> > need for my prototype.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John.
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> Hi John,
>
> I know eXist 1.4 does have a "counter" xquery function module to
> manage persistent counters.
>
> I was looking at the exist online function library docs for a link
> [1], but the online docs have been updated to reflect the 1.5
> developmental version and the counter module has disappeared - i'll
> ask the exist folks where it's gone.
>
> exist's util module also has a uuid() function.
>
> cheers,
>
> Alistair
>
> [1] http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/xquery/functions.xql
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 03:32:52PM -0700, Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> Sorry, I don't have sample code for this. You could maintain a
>> document in eXist with the last sequence number used, and when the
>> form is created read and update that number. I would also check if
>> eXist does not already provide a facility to do that (similar in
>> functionality to the create sequence myseq / myseq.nextval of Oracle).
>> But that seems like a lot of trouble to just have a "good looking" id
>> to me ;).
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:42 PM, JohnBampton <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Do you have some example code that I can use? Because I can't figure it out
>> > and this is the last customization of the government forms example that I
>> > need for my prototype.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > John.
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>
> Hi Alex, Alistair,
> Stumbled upon this thread while looking for a way to generate UUID's from
> xforms. Isn't there a way to call the java function uuid:createPseudoUUID()
> like we can do with the (unsafe-)xslt processor? Using the
> digest(string(random(true)), 'MD5', 'hex') doesn't return a UUID following
> the xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx format.
>
> Furthermore I read you were interested in more info on exists Counter
> module. This is something I contributed to eXist last year in order to
> maintain sequential persistent id's generated in a synchronized context.
>
> If you add or uncomment this in you conf.xml:
>
> <module class="org.exist.xquery.modules.counter.CounterModule"
>                    uri="http://exist-db.org/xquery/counter"/>
>
> and reload the documentation. You should be able to look it up under the
> http://exist-db.org/xquery/counter namespace. In short in comes down to:
>
> counter:create($counter-name as item()) xs:long?
> counter:create($counter-name as item(), $init-value as xs:long) xs:long?
> counter:destroy($counter-name as item()) xs:boolean?
> counter:next-value($counter-name as item()) xs:long?
>
> Regards,
> Jasper
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