Just to be clear: this is regardless of what you have named the output
of the pipeline referenced by the action attribute?

Thanks

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Erik Bruchez
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:28 AM
To: OXF Users
Subject: Re: Accessing the output of an action="action.xpl"

Peter,

In the XUpdate fragment, document('#action') returns the output of the
action, 
while document('#instance') return the current XForms instance.

-Erik

Peter Charles wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> If I have an action.xpl that declares an output
> 
> <p:param name="data" type="output"/>
> 
> and this action.xpl is called by
> 
> <action when="/form/selection = 'selected'" action="action.xpl">
> 
> Do I have access to the action.xpl pipeline output in any way?
> 
> I have tried:
> 
> <xu:update select="/form" xmlns:xu="http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate";> 
>   <xu:value-of select="document('#data')"/> 
>   </xu:update>
> 
> but this does not seem to work.
> 
> I basically would like to add the output of the action.xpl to the
> current page.
> 
> I have looked over the web app controller documentation but have found
> the coverage of 'action' limited. 
> 
> This section:
> 
> A <result> element can optionally contain XUpdate instructions. If
> present the XUpdate is run against the XForms instance. The XForms
> instance is either the current instance if the page attribute is
missing
> or the XForms instance of the corresponding page otherwise. The
updated
> instance is used for the rest of the processing if the page attribute
is
> missing, or passed to the other page otherwise.
> 
> Says that I can xupdate the current page's xform instance document.
> 
> In the controller file
> http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/examples/source?src=config/controller.xml
> 
> I see the use of   
> <xu:value-of select="document('#instance')"/>
> and 
> <xu:value-of select="document('#action')"/>
> 
> What is being referenced by #instance and #action?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter

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