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karkraeg
karkraeg

Reputation: 465

Using XForms to select and run an Xquery in eXistDB

I'm looking into Xforms and eXistDB and I'm stuck on wether it is possible to have say a selection dropdown and use the selection as a variable and run a xquery in eXist that returns the results. I know that this can be easily done with a html-form like <form method="GET" action="xquery-to-call.xq"> but I'd like to use the advanced features of XForms.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 108

Answers (1)

Joe Wicentowski
Joe Wicentowski

Reputation: 5294

Take a look at the XSLTForms Files and XSLTForms Demo apps in the eXist-db public repository. You can find and install these into your local eXist instance via Dashboard > Package Manager. (I recommend XSLTForms over betterForms, since the latter is no longer maintained.) Once both the Files and Demo apps are installed, open http://localhost:8080/exist/apps/XSLTForms-Demo/index.html, and you'll be able to browse the examples and explore the source code.

For more database-driven examples, see the XRX Wikibook at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XRX.

Upvotes: 1

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