Re: [Exist-open] Storing XForm data to eXist and getting it outag ain

[Adam R. <ada...@de...>]

> I cannot find a _simple_ explanation for how to use eXist from an
> XForm,  
> served by Tomcat/Chiba. Obviously, the things I need to know are:

As far as I know this hasnt really been done before.
Wolfgang was looking an writting an XForms parser for eXist in XQuery
but I think this is on hold at the moment as he has been busy with other
enhancements :-)

> a) What do I put into my (use case building) XForm or the associated
> XSLT to  
> store the XML instance data of the submitted form to eXist?

Im not sure, eXist provides several API mechanisms - REST, XML:DB,
XML-RPC, SOAP.
Depends what is suitable for use with Chiba I guess? Whichever API you
use you will probably use XUpdate through XQuery to store XML data in
the database. More information on each API can be found in the
Developers Guide.

> b) What do I put in a different (query/report) XForm to retrieve
> particular  
> use cases or parts thereof?

Again depends on the API, but quite possible XQuery with FLOWR
statement.

> Any links to tutorials or explanations, based on the scenarion I have,
> would  
> be much appreciated. Please bear in mind that I am a NON-technical
> user :o)

Documentation - http://exist.sourceforge.net/documentation.html
Developers Guide - http://exist.sourceforge.net/devguide.html

When and if you get this working it would be interesting to know more
about how you did it, as I think XForms could be pertinent to a lot of
eXist users.

Cheers Adam.

> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ps 
> I note from the homepage that 1.0b2 is out of date but I have no idea
> how to  
> turn a later development snapshot  into a .war file. (NB this is not
> my main  
> question please don't get hung up on answering it :o)
> 
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