Re: [Xsltforms-support] file uploads

[Conal T. <con...@gm...>]

BTW if anyone's in a particular hurry for a version of XSLTForms that does
"form-data-post" submissions, try
https://github.com/Conal-Tuohy/Muscovy/tree/master/xsltforms



On 11 February 2017 at 14:12, Conal Tuohy <con...@gm...> wrote:

>
>
> On 11 February 2017 at 00:46, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <
> cm...@bl...> wrote:
>
>>
>> What version of XSLTForms are you using?
>>
>
> I am using XSLTForms rev.639 ... my fork of https://github.com/
> AlainCouthures/xsltforms
>
> The current draft of XForms 2.0 does define a serialize() function, and
>> the snapshot of XSLTForms I downloaded last month from SourceForge
>> does have an implementation of it.  (Hmm.  For that matter, so does
>> 1.0RC2 — at least, the array XsltForms_xpathCoreFunctions defined
>> in xsltforms.js has an entry for serialize.)
>>
>
> Argh! How did I miss that? Thanks for the tip! I had been thinking
> XSLTForms was XForms 1.1, and working from the XForms 1.1 spec, though I
> did see the table of functions and simply missed serialize() even though it
> was exactly what I was looking for! D'oh!
>
> I've used serialize() and it's perfect.
>
> You may need to serialize into another instance using xf:setvalue, just
>> because
>>
> XForms isn’t always ready to accept values instead of references to values.
>>
>
> This is exactly what I've done. I should be away laughing, now, I think.
>
>>
>> And on another note — if you have just spent time figuring out how
>> xf:upload
>> works out of the box in XSLTForms, and how to modify XSLTForms to make it
>> do what you actually needed, could you be persuaded to add a page to the
>> XSLTForms wikibook describing what you learned?
>>
>
> Yes I will ... first I will need to contribute the xsltforms changes back
> to Alain somehow. I have (unwittingly) forked the wrong repository, it
> seems, and because I couldn't get the build process going I simply edited
> the xsltforms.js file directly, so I have a bit of work to do first. It's
> still not a complete implementation of "form-data-post" since it only works
> with instance elements whose type is "xsd:anyURI" and not the binary
> content types. But still, it's enough I think.
>
> Alain, is it best for you if I fork https://github.com/
> AlainCouthures/xphoneforms repository, and make a pull request?
>
> Once I've contributed the patch to xsltforms.js, I will get onto wikibook
> and document the process of using <xf:upload> to upload a binary file, and
> the trick of using serialize() to upload XML instances as
> multipart/form-data parameters.
>
> If every time a serious user of XSLTForms had trouble making something
>> work, we made it a practice to write up what we learned and put it into
>> the
>> XSLTForms wikibook, to help the next user, the wikibook would soon be
>> much more useful than it has been.  (Even in a purely self-interested way,
>> this can pay off.  Every time I come back to using transform() after a
>> long
>> period of not thinking about it, I find myself trying to remember how it
>> works,
>> and so the time I spent writing a page on it in the wikibook a couple of
>> years ago has now been paid back two or three times.)
>>
>
> I know! I have only just got back to using XForms after a break of about 4
> years, so I've been consulting it a lot; it's been a very useful resource.
>
> Conal
>
>
>
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