Hi, Just to make sure I get the right picture...
Let's say I want to use XForms to edit a XML document stored on disk. First, I need to read this document into my form instance. The XForms spec would let me use a src attribute to specify <xforms:instance src="/path/to/my/document.xml"/> but that's not supporter by OIS right now. A solution is to use xinclude to include the document into the xforms:instance element but, "Files that are included with XInclude must be static: their content cannot change while the application is running. If they do, there is a risk that an older version could be used due to aggressive caching." I gave it a try and can confirm that if a user updates the instance document, the modification is ignored by xinclude... The only solution I have found is to define the form in a pipeline such as: <p:config xmlns:p="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/pipeline"; xmlns:oxf="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/processors";> <p:param type="output" name="data"/> <p:processor name="oxf:xslt"> <p:input name="data" href="file:///tmp/instance.xml"/> <p:input name="config" > <xforms:model xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"; xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xsl:version="2.0"> <xforms:instance> <xsl:copy-of select="/*"/> </xforms:instance> </xforms:model> </p:input> <p:output name="data" ref="data"/> </p:processor> </p:config> With this pipeline, the cache seems to be correctly handled and if I update the document, the result is immediately visible. Second, I need to write the instance back into the document and for that, I need to write a pipeline that will use a file serializer to serialize the instance into the document, such as: <p:config xmlns:p="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/pipeline"; xmlns:oxf="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/processors";> <p:param type="input" name="instance"/> <p:processor name="oxf:file-serializer"> <p:input name="config"> <config> <file>instance.xml</file> <directory>/tmp/</directory> <content-type>text/xml</content-type> <encoding>utf-8</encoding> <indent-amount>4</indent-amount> </config> </p:input> <p:input name="data" href="#instance"/> </p:processor> </p:config> I can use this pipeline either as a page model or as a page view (both of them have access to the instance document returned by the user) but I can't add this serialization in the pipeline used to build the form since, AFAIK, the instance isn't exposed there. Do I get it right? Is there an easier way to do that? Thanks, Eric -- Tired of typing XML tags? http://wikiml.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com (ISO) RELAX NG ISBN:0-596-00421-4 http://oreilly.com/catalog/relax (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ orbeon-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/orbeon-user
