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. <xf:submission action="http://example.com/submit" method="post" id="submit" includenamespaceprefixes=""/> <xf:submission action="http://example.com/submit" method="post" includenamespaceprefixes="#default"/> Sample Form <html 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"> <head> <title>Test of XForms Submission Namespace Inclusion</title> <style type="text/css"> <![CDATA[ @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;} ]]> </style> <xf:model> <xf:instance src="input-default-ns.xml" id='save-data'/> <xf:submission id="submit-std" action="http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/test/xforms/submission-tests/save-new.xq" method="post"/> <xf:submission id="submit-null" action="http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/test/xforms/submission-tests/save-new.xq" method="post" includenamespaceprefixes=""/> <xf:submission id="submit-default" action="http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/test/xforms/submission-tests/save-new.xq" method="post" includenamespaceprefixes="#default"/> </xf:model> </head> <body> <h1>Submit Test</h1> <div class="block-form"> <xf:input ref="instance('save-data')/task:id"> <xf:label>ID: </xf:label> </xf:input> <xf:input ref="task:task-name"> <xf:label>Name: </xf:label> </xf:input> <xf:input ref="task:task-description"> <xf:label>Description: </xf:label> </xf:input> </div> <xf:submit submission="submit-std"> <xf:label>Without Attribute</xf:label> </xf:submit> <xf:submit submission="submit-null"> <xf:label>With Attribute Null</xf:label> </xf:submit> <xf:submit submission="submit-default"> <xf:label>With Default Namespace</xf:label> </xf:submit> </body> </html> Sample Instance Files With Default Namespace <task xmlns="http://www.example.com/task"> <task:id>123</task:id> <task-name>Task Name</task-name> <task-description>Task Description</task-description> </task> With Namespace Prefixes <task:task xmlns:task="http://www.example.com/task"> <task:task:id>123</task:id> <task:task-name>Task Name</task:task-name> <task:task-description>Task Description</task:task-description> </task:task> Link to Working Example Example Introduction to XForms 1.1 Submission Differences Events Overview Encoding Parameters