Re: XForms: submission with POST, does it work?

Aaron Reed <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:28:13 -0600
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xml
Organization	Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Pascal Sartoretti wrote:
> Nils Dehl wrote:
> 
>> this code snippet work on my test system:
>>
>> $postedXML = new DOMDocument();
>> $loaded = @$postedXML->load('php://input');
>> if ($loaded) {
>>   $postedXML->save('test.xml');
>> }
> 
> 
> Thanks for you help, but my problem is on the client side; my server 
> (ruby's WEBrick) simply doesn't seem to receive anything from the 
> FireFox client when using "post" as method. Could you please show me how 
> you configured the <submission> ?
> 
> Pascal

Hey Pascal,

Here is a testcase that works for me.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- basic FO page definition stuff -->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" >
     <head>
       <title>Submission Testcase</title>
       <style type="text/css">
         @namespace xf url("http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms");
         xf|*:invalid input {
           background-color: red;
         }
         xf|*:disabled input {
           display: none;
         }
       </style>
       <xforms:model>
         <xforms:instance xmlns="">
           <values>
             <value>default</value>
             <name>Click to Submit</name>
           </values>
         </xforms:instance>

         <xforms:submission id="submitInfo"
                            method="post"
                            ref="/values"
 
action="http://www.xformstest.org/cgi-bin/echo.sh" >
           <xforms:message level="modal" 
ev:event="xforms-submit-error">We got a submit error</xforms:message>
         </xforms:submission>
       </xforms:model>
     </head>
     <body>
       <h2>This testcase exercises submission
       </h2>

       <p>
         <xforms:input ref="value">
           <xforms:label>Please enter a value to submit: </xforms:label>
         </xforms:input>
       </p>
       <p>
         <xforms:submit submission="submitInfo" ref="name" >
           <xforms:label ref="."/>
         </xforms:submit>
       </p>
     </body>
</html>

--Aaron