Re: Access to arguments

Oh and yes I prefer a function to an instance.

-Erik

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org> wrote:
> We have extensions functions for that:
>
>     http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xforms-xpath-functions#TOC-HTTP-request-functions
>
> For your use case we have:
>
>     xxf:get-request-parameter()
>
> That sounds a bit server-side as an API name though.
>
> BTW browsers have Window.location and Document.location which return
> Location objects, but there doesn't seem to be anything to parse the
> query string:
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location
>
> -Erik
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Steven Pemberton
> <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
>> I have a need to access the arguments given to a the URL that causes an
>> XForm to load.
>>
>>         http://www.example.com/form.xml?type=1&name=foo
>>
>> One option would be a pseudo-instance:
>>
>>         <setvalue ref="bar" value="instance('arguments')/name)" />
>>
>> but I imagine it would be easier to implement a function:
>>
>>         <setvalue ref="bar" value="argument('name')" />
>>
>> Any opinions?
>>
>> Steven Pemberton
>>