Re: [Xsltforms-support] Problem with replace all

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I think this is an XSLTForms limitation of submission replace='all', but of course Alain would have to answer that.
I believe the problem is because replace='all' uses XHR, even when method='get'.

You can use an XSLTForms-only hack for POST, by doing method="xml-urlencoded-post".  In this case, XSLTForms creates an HTML4 form and serializes the XML into a single HTML4 field named "postdata."  The disadvantge is that you must alter server-side code to look for a URL Encoded POST containing a parameter "postdata" and then extract that and parsing it as XML.  

Personally, I think that XSLTForms could similarly implement submission method='get' when replace='all' by creating an HTML form element, and there would be no compensation needed and your example below would work.  Perhaps Alain has already explored this and found it unworkable for some reason, or perhaps it is just work that needs doing (and maybe you could help?)

Leigh.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thorsten Roggendorf [mailto:t...@sc...] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 2:58 PM
To: xsl...@li...
Subject: [Xsltforms-support] Problem with replace all

Hi

I'm trying to write my first XRX app and cannot get a form to work where I replace one xform with another. While the whole thing is starting to get complicated with modules and all, I think I have isolated the problem in a simple example. I wrote two straightforward xhtml files step1.xhtml and step2.xhtml. If they are loaded separately (and
explicitly) both work. But if step2 is loaded by submitting step1 it does not work.

I observed the problem in firefox 3.5.7. Pages are served by eXist
1.4.0rc-rev10028-20090908 on the localhost (ubuntu karmic koala).

I'll attach the xhtml fies and past it as well in case attachments are filtered out:

step1:
<?xml-stylesheet href="xsltforms/xsltforms.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> <?xsltforms-options debug="yes"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"> 
	<head> 
		<title>Edit Person</title> 
		<xf:model>
			<xf:instance> 
				<person> 
					<FAMILY/>
				</person> 
			</xf:instance> 
			<xf:submission id="submit" method="get" action="step2.xhtml"
replace="all" />
		</xf:model> 
	</head> 
	<body> 
		<xf:input ref="FAMILY"> 
			<xf:label>Family:</xf:label> 
		</xf:input> 
		<xf:submit submission="submit"> 
			<xf:label>Next</xf:label> 
		</xf:submit>
	</body>
</html>

step2:
<?xml-stylesheet href="xsltforms/xsltforms.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> <?xsltforms-options debug="yes"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"> 
	<head> 
		<title>Edit Person</title> 
		<xf:model>
			<xf:instance> 
				<person> 
					<FAMILY/>
				</person> 
			</xf:instance> 
		</xf:model> 
	</head> 
	<body> 
		<xf:input ref="FAMILY"> 
			<xf:label>Family:</xf:label> 
		</xf:input> 
	</body>
</html>

   Regards
  Thorsten