Re: Re: Re: Hyperlink to a Particular Instance?

> Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Jim Logan <jim-l@...>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  For example, let's say I have a customer form that lists  
>>> hyperlinks to
>>> outstanding customer orders. I'd like to be able to click on a  
>>> customer
>>> order and go to an XForm to edit it. How can I formulate a  
>>> hyperlink to load
>>> a particular order with an XForm?
>>>
>>
>> Let's say the path of the page to view an order is /order/view. You
>> first map that this path to the XHTML+XForms in the page flow (<page
>> path-info="/order/view" view="view-order.xhtml"/>). Then let's say  
>> you
>> pass the order ID on the URL with ?order-id=123. In your XForms, on
>> xforms-model-construct-done, you load the instance for that ID. You
>> can access the ID in XPath with
>> xxforms:get-request-parameter('order-id'). You will typically load  
>> the
>> order document with a submission that calls an XPL, or a call to some
>> other service. Does this help?
>>
>> Alex
>>
> Alex,
>
> Is it possible to use a RESTful URL that has the instance ID  
> embedded in it, like "http://modeldriven.org/orders/order/1234"? I  
> don't see a way to get at the original URL.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jim
>