Component Controller and Form Tag

Hi,

I am using HP TeamSite 7.4.1.0.0

I have a simple component which browses a HTML File. The component XSLT renders the HTML contents as-is on the page.

The HTML file will always be a HTML Form with many input tags and a submit.

I have controller for this component.

Issue: On my page, on click of Submit on the Form , the controller is NOT getting invoked. I see no logs anywhere.

Work around: If the component XSLT has the "form" tag and rest of the input tags in the external HTML file, then the controller gets invoked.

But if the external HTML file has the Form tag and component XSLT simply renders the HTML, the controller is not getting invoked.

I am unable to understand this behaviour. Please suggest if this is a known behaviour?

The below part is just to add some back ground.

Business use case to give some background: Our client has several Forms on his website. Each form has a unique HTML.For each form he has created a new component and a new external.

As a first step of Clean up and consolidation, he wants to have 1 Form component handle all his 17 forms that he has currently has and the reuse the backend business logic as-is.

Our solution: One Form component with facility to browse HTML files, and a controller which invokes the respective external based on some mapping logic.

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sgarimella

Sorry, I did not kow how to attach external files, hence adding my code here just for a quick reference.

This is the component content XML:

<Data>
<Datum ID="HTML_PATH" Type="File" Name="HTML_PATH" Label="Browse HTML File*"><![CDATA[]]></Datum>
   <Controllers>
<Controller Name="FormController">
      <Object>com.pge.global.livesite.component.controller.FormController</Object>
      <Method>selectFormExternal</Method>
    </Controller>
</Controllers>
</Data>

Component XSLT:

<!DOCTYPE html-entities SYSTEM "http://www.interwoven.com/livesite/xsl/xsl-html.dtd">
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:include href="http://www.interwoven.com/livesite/xsl/HTMLTemplates.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="http://www.interwoven.com/livesite/xsl/StringTemplates.xsl"/>
   <xsl:template match="/">
     
     <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="string-length($form) < 1">
               
                <div class="alert alert-danger">Missing HTML File.</div>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl: otherwise>
                
               <form name="myForm" action="/formTest" method="post">
               <xsl:variable name="html_path_val" select="substring-after($form, '$URL_PREFIX')"/>
                 $RENDER_HTML{<xsl:value-of select="$html_path_val"/>}
               </form>
              </xsl: otherwise>
       </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

My HTML File:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html>
   <head>
   </head>
   <body>
       <form name="myForm" method="post">
                      First name:<br/>
                      <input type="TEXT" value="" name="first_name" title="Teacher Name Field" id="first_name" maxlength="40" class="required"/>
                      <br/>
                      Last name:<br/>
                      <input type="TEXT" value="" name="last_name" title="Teacher Name Field" id="last_name" maxlength="40" class="required"/>
                        <br/>
                      Email:<br/>
                      <input type="email" value="" name="email" title="Email Field" id="email" maxlength="40" class="required"/>
                       <br/>
                      Confirm Email:<br/>
                      <input type="email" value="" name="confirm_email" title="Confirm Email Field" id="confirm_email" class="required" maxlength="40" equalto="#sender_email"/>
                      <br/>
                      City
                      <input type="text" value="" name="city" title="City Field" id="city" maxlength="40" class="required"/>
                      <br/>
                      Country
                      <input type="text" value="" name="county" title="County Field" id="county" maxlength="40"/>
                      <br/>
                      Phone
                      <input type="text" value="" name="phone_number" id="phone_number" class="phone_number required" title="Phone Number Field"/>
                      <br/>
                      asasa <input type="text" value="true" name="postback" id="postback" class="" title="postback"/>
                      <br/>
                      <input ID="EmailDCR" type="hidden" Name="EmailDCR" Type="text" value="templatedata/content/Email/data/pge_singlelightoutage.xml"/>

                      <input ID="SubjectLine" type="hidden" Name="Subject Line" Type="text" value="Single Street Outage"/>
                       <input ID="SenderDisplayName" type="hidden" Name="Sender Display Name" Type="text" value="PGE"/>
                   <input ID="sender_email" type="hidden" Name="sender_email" Type="text" value="customerservice@pge.com"/>
                   <input ID="Default Mail Recipient" type="hidden" Name="Default Mail Recipient" Type="text" value="skumar209@sapient.com"/>
                   <input ID="SMTP Server Address" type="hidden" Name="SMTP Server Address" Type="text" value="inrelaymail.sapient.com"/>
                   <input ID="SMTP Port" type="hidden" Name="SMTP Port" Type="text" value="25"/>
                   <input ID="Mime Type" type="hidden" Name="Mime Type" Type="text" value="text/html"/>
                   <input ID="SMTP Username" type="hidden" Name="SMTP Username" Type="text" value=""/>
                   <input ID="SMTP Password" type="hidden" Name="SMTP Password" Type="text" value=""/>
                      <br/><br/>
                      <input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
       </form>
   </body>

</html>