How href works in orbeon?

Question

I am a newbie to orbeon, xform and xslt technology. I have followed this "orbeon form" tutorial. Then I'm trying to understand the source code of orbeon community edition where I am facing some problems -

• from examples-form-runner.xml (from orbeon-forms/src/resources/apps/home/) there is an href attributes as follow -

  <examples title="Creating forms with Form Builder"
    xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
      <example title="Form Builder" href="/fr/orbeon/builder/new"                 
          img="/home/images/form-builder-small.jpg" 
          portlet-exclude="true" 
          size="8"
          source="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yakobusan/2436481628/">
  

When we click the image/link a modal is appeared for creating new form. I know about "page-flow.xml" which act something like a controller and it's map request to a view. But I did not find any "page-flow.xml" here which map the "/fr/orbeon/builder/new" to a view. Can anyone tell me how the modal is appared ?

Answer 1

It's fairly simple:

• line 35 of the top-level page-flow.xml directs the incoming path to a sub-page-flow.xml
• line 165 of the sub-page-flow.xml is the one which points to the actual model and view for that page