Send data to XForms

Question

I am trying to use an XForms document that creates an instance from a different XML document depending on a request parameter or header. I can't find a way to do it without using Orbeon's xxforms:get-request-parameter().

Orbeon also suggest this:

<xforms:instance id="user-data" src="input:instance"/>

I might be able to use this (assuming BetterForms supports it) but I need multiple XML documents as inputs. I may be able to rig up a way to put all the XML documents into one post XML fragment, but that's not much fun either.

I originally tried generating the XForms as the return of an XQuery document with request:get-parameter() but I'm running into problems with it. Is there something I'm missing or are these methods the only good ways to send stuff to XForms?

Answer 1

At this point, it looks like your choices are as follows:

• With Orbeon Forms, use the Orbeon's extension XPath functions to access the HTTP request.
• With Better Forms or XSLTForms, contact the authors to see if they can implement the standard URI functions introduced in XForms 2.0.