XQuery/Getting POST Data

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Contents 1 Motivation 2 Method 3 Sample echo-post.xq 4 Discussion

[edit] Motivation

You want to create an XQuery that will access data in the HTTP POST.

[edit] Method

To do this you use the request:get-data() XQuery function.

[edit] Sample echo-post.xq

xquery version "1.0";

(: echo-post.xq: Return all data from an HTTP post to the caller. :)

declare namespace exist = "http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist";
declare namespace xmldb="http://exist-db.org/xquery/xmldb";
declare namespace request="http://exist-db.org/xquery/request";

declare option exist:serialize "method=xml media-type=text/xml indent=yes";

let $post-data := request:get-data()

return
<post-data>
   {$post-data}
</post-data>

[edit] Discussion

The program above (called echo-post.xq) is a very useful program for testing your web forms. It just takes the data sent to the XQuery service and returns it wrapped in a <post-data> tag.