Re: [Exist-open] configuring omit-xml-declaration=no

[Dan M. <dan...@gm...>]

Hello Lyle,

Glad to see people using eXist for Adobe forms.  This is an interesting
approach.

You "should" be able to customize the serialization for any mime-type.  You
might want to try a few small steps.

Have you tried to create a simple custom XQuery program that adds the
serialize option?

Have you tried putting a controller.xql directly in a collection? For
example

/db/xfdf/controller.xql

There is some additional information in this here:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery/URL_Rewriting_Basics

Make sure you edit the controller-config.xml file and restart the server.

Let us know how this goes.  Once you get it set up we might want to add a
Wikibook article on this topic.

- Dan


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Lyle Winton <Lyl...@vu...> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I’m an eXist noob and can’t find this in docs or mail archive.  I’m using
> eXist to store Adobe PDF form data (XFDF) which is working well after
> updating the mime-types.xml .  However, extracting the documents (via a
> browser GET on a rest URL) returns output without an XML declaration, and
> Adobe Acrobat then warns users the file is corrupt.  For example the admin
> tools in Browse Collections eventually generates a link to the following
> indexed document...
>
>
> http://localhost:8080/exist/rest//db/rdmp-forms-test/20120120%2520RDMP%2520test4_data.xfdf<http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/rdmp-forms-test/20120120%2520RDMP%2520test4_data.xfdf>
>
>
>
> I’m aware of the XQuery "declare option exist:serialize" for queries, but
> is there a way I can set omit-xml-declaration=no to the gobal default or
> just for specific mime types?
>
>
>
> I’ve tried editing  webapp/controller.xql  adding a new dispatch/forward...
>
>    else if (ends-with($exist:resource, '.xfdf')) then
>
> ...with a set-attribute omit to no, but I suspect REST calls are getting
> caught before this as it didn’t matter what I put here.  I’ve also tried
> playing with serializer config but this didn’t change the REST output.
>
>
>
> Can someone give me a hint where to look?
>
>
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Lyle.
>
>
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