xforms:submission with GET

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Henrik Pettersen [mailto:[hidden email]]
>Sent: 27 November 2006 15:33
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: [ops-users] xforms:submission with GET
>
>All,
>
>I have come across several use cases where I wish to perform a
>GET submission, without sending any instance data:
>
><xforms:submission id="knowledgebase-nav-submission"
>       method="get"
>       action="/knowledgebase"/>
>
>There are several reasons for this:
>1. I wish to use the Orbeon Forms rendering of XForms Controls
>to GET these links (UI widgets, instance checking, logging,
>etc.) 2. A GET submission generates (in my opinion) nasty
>URLs, as it contains URLEncoded XML for the instance submitted
>3. I might want to use URL-rewriting to get proper URLs for my
>pages that require form inputs, e.g.
>http://somewebsite.com/myapplication/user/12349683 (get user with ID
>"12349683")
>
>I believe the XForms specification calls for allways having an
>instance when you are performing the submission (omitting the
>attribute causes a default instance to be submitted), so I'm
>not sure if this is on their radar.
>
>So how can this be achieved? Should this even be possible? Can
>I overcome my issues in other ways? Orbeon Community, what do
>you think?
>How would you like the 'get' submission to behave?
>
>Also, has anyone of you implemented URL-rewriting of the kind
>I am proposing (i.e. http://mysite/myapp/entity/entity-id)?
>I'ld be interested in hearing about your experiences.
>
>My 2 cents.
>
>Sincerely,
>Henrik Pettersen
>Advanced Computation Laboratory
>Cancer Research UK
>
>

> Henrick,
>         I tend to create a dummy instance
>
> <xforms:instance id="dummy-instance">
>         <instance/>
> </xforms:instance>
>
> This gets around this problem
>
> Ryan Puddephatt
> Software Engineer
>
> Teleflex Group - IT UK
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>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Henrik Pettersen [mailto:[hidden email]]
> >Sent: 27 November 2006 15:33
> >To: [hidden email]
> >Subject: [ops-users] xforms:submission with GET
> >
> >All,
> >
> >I have come across several use cases where I wish to perform a
> >GET submission, without sending any instance data:
> >
> ><xforms:submission id="knowledgebase-nav-submission"
> >       method="get"
> >       action="/knowledgebase"/>
> >
> >There are several reasons for this:
> >1. I wish to use the Orbeon Forms rendering of XForms Controls
> >to GET these links (UI widgets, instance checking, logging,
> >etc.) 2. A GET submission generates (in my opinion) nasty
> >URLs, as it contains URLEncoded XML for the instance submitted
> >3. I might want to use URL-rewriting to get proper URLs for my
> >pages that require form inputs, e.g.
> >http://somewebsite.com/myapplication/user/12349683 (get user with ID
> >"12349683")
> >
> >I believe the XForms specification calls for allways having an
> >instance when you are performing the submission (omitting the
> >attribute causes a default instance to be submitted), so I'm
> >not sure if this is on their radar.
> >
> >So how can this be achieved? Should this even be possible? Can
> >I overcome my issues in other ways? Orbeon Community, what do
> >you think?
> >How would you like the 'get' submission to behave?
> >
> >Also, has anyone of you implemented URL-rewriting of the kind
> >I am proposing (i.e. http://mysite/myapp/entity/entity-id)?
> >I'ld be interested in hearing about your experiences.
> >
> >My 2 cents.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >Henrik Pettersen
> >Advanced Computation Laboratory
> >Cancer Research UK
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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