306014 - xforms simple search form example doesn't submit data

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: XForms, defect)

Description

[Andreas Harth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

The tutorial at
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/2003/xforms-for-html-authors.html#ASimpleSearchForm
describes a simple search XForm.

The example doesn't have any <instance>..</instance> definition in it.

If I add the <instance>...</instance> definition to the xml file, I can actally
submit data; before that, submitting data is not possible (nothing happens if I
click on "Go").

A little bit down in the tutorial it says:

If there is no instance element there (as in the
search example above), then one is silently created.

I think that's the bug: there is no instance element silently created.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access:

<h:html xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
       xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms">
<h:head>
    <h:title>Search</h:title>
    <model>
        <submission action="http://xformstest.org/cgi-bin/echo.sh"
                    method="get" id="s"/>
    </model>
</h:head>
<h:body>
    <h:p>
        <input ref="q"><label>Find</label></input>
       <submit submission="s"><label>Go</label></submit>
    </h:p>
</h:body>
</h:html>

2. Click "Go"
3. Nothing happens

Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
submit the value of the input filed as q paramter via HTTP GET to
http://xformstest.org/cgi-bin/echo.sh

Comment 1

[Allan Beaufour]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

This a rather old build. It works in a current nightly. Filing WFM.