- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:01:42 +0100
- To: "'Suzan Foster'" <suzan.foster@nerocmediaware.nl>
- Cc: <www-forms@w3.org>
Hi Suzan, > I actually found myself using XMLHttpRequest in conjunction > with XForms recently. Partially because I initially had empty > repeats, and so no final member to copy. You can use the new xf:duplicate action. It's in XForms 1.1, but is already supported in a number of implementations. > But mainly to retrieve a server-side initialized structure with > an unique id. Just set an instance up as normal for a submission, and then fire the submission on xforms-ready or xforms-model-construct-done. We use this technique a lot, and the nice thing is that if the instance that you are submitting is itself initialised with @src, you can change how you query for the second lot of instance data. (For example, a user saves some preferences to a server, and your form first loads those preferences using @src, and then fires a submission on xforms-ready that retrieves the data relevant to their saved preferences.) > That said, it's still a hardly-portable workaround. Maybe > I should dub the practice: 'Feijenoord' ;o) I've Googled and Babelfished, and I can't work out what you mean -- sorry! Is it where you are based? Regards, Mark Mark Birbeck CEO x-port.net Ltd. e: Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/ b: http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/ Download our XForms processor from http://www.formsPlayer.com/
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