Make html form send xml

Question

hi,
i am facing a bsp-development in XI-context. As the XI expects xml-input via http-channel I need to set up forms which can send the query-string as xml.
eg
thisPageToXI.htm?name=john&job=nap&age=34&...
I was looking in my WAS and found a couple of function modules, which can convert stuff to xml - most of them derived from crm apparently. But they're all a bit unhandy.
How would you deal with that task?
thanx in advance,
matthias

Answer 1

Matthias,
Always in these discussions confusion is abound because questions is not formulated perfectly.
First you write: "I need to set up forms which can send the query-string as xml". In this picture I have a browser, and when the request leaves the browser to go somewhere, you expect the payload to be in XML format.
But then you write this example: "?name=john&job=nap&...". Hmmm.. here things are just simple name/value pairs. No XML.
And then suddenly you write "I was looking in my WAS ...can convert stuff to xml". So now we are suddenly on the server, without XML in hand, but wanted it.
All confusion. So let we first draw a picture:
(1) browser --XML--> XI
(2) browser --name/values--> WebAS(BSP) --XML--> XI
In scenario 1, the browser prepares the XML document directly, and sends it directly to the XI server. I know of no technique to achieve this form HTML. Your posted examples using the ActiveX XML object in the browser is probably the only way to go. Will just require some JavaScript to find all the correct formfields, and feed all of this into XML object.
In scenario two you just submit a normal request to the server. You use something such as get_form_fields and concatenate to build the XML string. Then you make an outgoing HTTP connection to XI using the HTTP Client. Somewhere we have examples of how this can be done.
But first, for me at least, is the question of what you wish to achieve.
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