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Colin Seaman

submission

Hi,

Easy question (I hope!) -

Why when I do a POST on a submission in my XForm does the submission go
to: /ops/xforms-server-submit

My XForms submission looks like:
<xforms:submission id="search"
method="post" action="http://www.google.com/search"
ref="instance('instance_model_Document')"
replace="all"/>

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Colin Seaman

Re: submission

ah, actually it does go to the correct place but the url always shows /ops/xforms-server-submit ..

any reason for that?

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Colin Seaman wrote:

Hi,

Easy question (I hope!) -

Why when I do a POST on a submission in my XForm does the submission go to: /ops/xforms-server-submit

My XForms submission looks like:
<xforms:submission id="search"
method="post" action="http://www.google.com/search"
ref="instance('instance_model_Document')" replace="all"/>
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Erik Bruchez

Re: submission

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Colin,

The XForms submission is actually performed by the server, not the
client. So the client (web browser) has to do a submission the XForms
server, which in turn does a submission to http://www.google.com/search.
The XForms server acts as an intermediary and forward the returned HTML
content back to the client.

This could be improved if there was a way in HTML to submit an XML
document and get a new HTML page in return, but as far as I know this is
not possible.

-Erik

Colin Seaman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Easy question (I hope!) -
>
> Why when I do a POST on a submission in my XForm does the submission go
> to: /ops/xforms-server-submit
>
> My XForms submission looks like:
> <xforms:submission id="search"
> method="post" action="http://www.google.com/search"
> ref="instance('instance_model_Document')"
> replace="all"/>

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Colin Seaman

Re: submission

Erik, thanks.

On slightly the same note, how can I set a global property to default actions to on XForms submissions? Say for instance I have 10 XForm files, all with submissions to "http://www.something.com/anotherthing", could I set "http://www.something.com" as a variable somewhere and include it dynamically on the xforms:submission tag in all of my forms?

I'm not sure I like the idea of hard coding paths everywhere, especially when my app is distributed to different servers!

Colin Seaman
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Erik Bruchez wrote:

Colin,

The XForms submission is actually performed by the server, not the client. So the client (web browser) has to do a submission the XForms server, which in turn does a submission to http://www.google.com/search. The XForms server acts as an intermediary and forward the returned HTML content back to the client.

This could be improved if there was a way in HTML to submit an XML document and get a new HTML page in return, but as far as I know this is not possible.

-Erik

Colin Seaman wrote:

Hi,

Easy question (I hope!) -

Why when I do a POST on a submission in my XForm does the submission go to: /ops/xforms-server-submit

My XForms submission looks like:
<xforms:submission id="search"
method="post" action="http://www.google.com/search"
ref="instance('instance_model_Document')" replace="all"/>
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Erik Bruchez

Re: submission

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Colin,

> On slightly the same note, how can I set a global property to default
> actions to on XForms submissions? Say for instance I have 10 XForm
> files, all with submissions to "http://www.something.com/anotherthing",
> could I set "http://www.something.com" as a variable somewhere and
> include it dynamically on the xforms:submission tag in all of my forms?
>
> I'm not sure I like the idea of hard coding paths everywhere, especially
> when my app is distributed to different servers!

Understood. There is no such property at this point.

Btu the XForms engine rewrites paths against xml:base, and the default
xml:base is the external URL that produced the page. If you have the
same xforms:submission in multiple files, you could XInclude it in all
your pages. If xforms:submission has an @xml:base attribute, like
this:

<xforms:submission xml:base="http://www.something.com/gaga" ...>

then you would have only once place to change.

Note that if you write:

<xforms:submission action="/gaga", this is resolved by default against
the Servlet context into which Orbeon Forms is installed.

-Erik

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Colin Seaman

Re: submission

Erik,
Unfortunately that still gives me a problem when deploying to multiple servers.

What about if I created an XML instance from in incoming POST operation, mapped it to an instance and done something like this:

action="{{xxforms:instance('instance_model_Document')/Document/myreturnplace}}"

where the xml would be:
<Document>
<myreturnplace>http://www.somthing.com/blah/</myreturnplace>
</Document>

would that work?

Colin Seaman
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Erik Bruchez wrote:

Colin,

> On slightly the same note, how can I set a global property to default
> actions to on XForms submissions? Say for instance I have 10 XForm
> files, all with submissions to "http://www.something.com/anotherthing",
> could I set "http://www.something.com" as a variable somewhere and
> include it dynamically on the xforms:submission tag in all of my forms?
>
> I'm not sure I like the idea of hard coding paths everywhere, especially
> when my app is distributed to different servers!

Understood. There is no such property at this point.

Btu the XForms engine rewrites paths against <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="xml:base">xml:base, and the default
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="xml:base">xml:base is the external URL that produced the page. If you have the
same xforms:submission in multiple files, you could XInclude it in all
your pages. If xforms:submission has an @<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="xml:base">xml:base attribute, like
this:

<xforms:submission <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="xml:base=">xml:base="http://www.something.com/gaga" ...>

then you would have only once place to change.

Note that if you write:

<xforms:submission action="/gaga", this is resolved by default against
the Servlet context into which Orbeon Forms is installed.

-Erik
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Daniel E. Renfer

Re: submission

If you have the URL of the server stored in an XML Pipeline, you could
always run your final page through an XSLT transformation. (say in
your epilogue, or wherever you are applying other common themes)

Just pass that pipeline in as an extra input, and then output your
value into the xml:base attribute.

Assuming you name the input "base":

<xsl:template match="/">
<html:html xml:base="{doc('input:base')/Document/myreturnplace}">

</html:html>
</xsl:template>

You won't be able to change the base at runtime (after the page has
been loaded) but you'll be able to make it different for every page
view. (Which I assume meets your requirements)

Hope this helps,
Daniel E. Renfer
http://kronkltd.net/

On 12/19/06, Colin Seaman <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Erik,
> Unfortunately that still gives me a problem when deploying to multiple
> servers.
>
> What about if I created an XML instance from in incoming POST operation,
> mapped it to an instance and done something like this:
>
> action="{{xxforms:instance('instance_model_Document')/Document/myreturnplace}}"
>
> where the xml would be:
> <Document>
> <myreturnplace>http://www.somthing.com/blah/</myreturnplace>
> </Document>
>
> would that work?
> Colin Seaman
> Senior Developer
>
> Tradocs Ltd,
> Tower Point,
> 44 North Road,
> Brighton,
> BN1 1YR
>
> email: [hidden email]
> skype: colin,seaman
> telephone: 0870-1417031
> website: http://www.tradocs.net
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>
>
> Erik Bruchez wrote:
> Colin,
>
> > On slightly the same note, how can I set a global property to default
> > actions to on XForms submissions? Say for instance I have 10 XForm
> > files, all with submissions to
> "http://www.something.com/anotherthing",
> > could I set "http://www.something.com" as a variable somewhere and
> > include it dynamically on the xforms:submission tag in all of my forms?
> >
> > I'm not sure I like the idea of hard coding paths everywhere, especially
> > when my app is distributed to different servers!
>
> Understood. There is no such property at this point.
>
> Btu the XForms engine rewrites paths against xml:base, and the default
> xml:base is the external URL that produced the page. If you have the
> same xforms:submission in multiple files, you could XInclude it in all
> your pages. If xforms:submission has an @xml:base attribute, like
> this:
>
> <xforms:submission xml:base="http://www.something.com/gaga" ...>
>
> then you would have only once place to change.
>
> Note that if you write:
>
> <xforms:submission action="/gaga", this is resolved by default against
> the Servlet context into which Orbeon Forms is installed.
>
> -Erik
>
>
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Alessandro Vernet

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On 12/19/06, Colin Seaman <[hidden email]> wrote:
> action="{{xxforms:instance('instance_model_Document')/Document/myreturnplace}}"
>
> where the xml would be:
> <Document>
> <myreturnplace>http://www.somthing.com/blah/</myreturnplace>
> </Document>
>
> would that work?

Colin,

Yes, this should work. Except you just need {...} for AVTs, instead of {{..}}.

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