XForms, Changing Namespaces in Submission

Motivation

You want to control the way that namespace prefixes are handled in your submission.

Method

We will use the includenamespaceprefixes attribute of a submission.

The XForms 1.1 specification allows the user to change the way that namespace prefixes are handled in a submitted element.

Here is an example of the use of the includenamespaceprefixes attribute to the submission element.

action="http://example.com/submit"
method="post" id="submit"
includenamespaceprefixes=""/>

action="http://example.com/submit"
method="post" includenamespaceprefixes="#default"/>

Sample Form

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
xmlns:task="http://www.example.com/task"
task:dummy="dummy">

Test of XForms Submission Namespace Inclusion
type="text/css">

@namespace xf url("http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms");
body {font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;}
.block-form xf|input { display: block; margin: 1ex; }
.block-form xf|label {display: inline-block; width: 15ex; float: left; text-align: right; margin-right: 1ex; font-weight: bold;}
]]>

src="input-default-ns.xml" id='save-data'/>

id="submit-std"
action="http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/test/xforms/submission-tests/save-new.xq"
method="post"/>

id="submit-null"
action="http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/test/xforms/submission-tests/save-new.xq"
method="post"
includenamespaceprefixes=""/>

id="submit-default"
action="http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/test/xforms/submission-tests/save-new.xq"
method="post"
includenamespaceprefixes="#default"/>

Submit Test
class="block-form">
ref="instance('save-data')/task:id">
ID:

ref="task:task-name">
Name:

ref="task:task-description">
Description:

submission="submit-std">
Without Attribute

submission="submit-null">
With Attribute Null

submission="submit-default">
With Default Namespace

Sample Instance Files

With Default Namespace

xmlns="http://www.example.com/task">;
123
Task Name
Task Description

With Namespace Prefixes

xmlns:task="http://www.example.com/task">;
123
Task Name
Task Description

Link to Working Example

Example
Introduction to XForms 1.1 Submission Differences

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