Developer’s Guide

Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data 7-7
Description of elements in the FMPXMLLAYOUT grammar
In the generated FMPXMLLAYOUT grammar, the LAYOUT
element contains the name of the layout, the name of the database,
and FIELD elements for each field found in the corresponding layout
in the database. Each FIELD element describes the style type of the
field, and contains the VALUELIST attribute for any associated
value list of the field.
The VALUELISTS element contains one or more VALUELIST
elements for each value list found in the layout—each including the
name of the value list and a VALUE element for each value in the
list.
To qualify the XML elements for the FileMaker Pro application, the
names of all elements and attributes in this grammar are associated
with the unique XML namespace http://www.filemaker.com/
fmpxmllayout. This namespace is declared in the grammar as the
default namespace.
The following is an example of XML data generated with the
FMPXMLLAYOUT grammar.
Example of XML data in the FMPXMLLAYOUT grammar
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FMPXMLLAYOUT xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpxmllayout">
<ERRORCODE>0</ERRORCODE>
<PRODUCT NAME="Web Companion" VERSION="5.5v1"
BUILD="10/24/99"/>
<LAYOUT NAME="Web Layout" DATABASE="employees.fp5">
<FIELD NAME="First Name">
<STYLE TYPE="EDITTEXT" VALUELIST="" />
</FIELD>
<FIELD NAME="Last Name">
<STYLE TYPE="EDITTEXT" VALUELIST="" />
</FIELD>
<FIELD NAME="Department">
<STYLE TYPE="POPUPMENU"
VALUELIST="Departments" />
</FIELD>
</LAYOUT>
<VALUELISTS>
<VALUELIST NAME="Departments">
<VALUE>Engineering</VALUE>
<VALUE>Marketing</VALUE>
</VALUELIST>
</VALUELISTS>
</FMPXMLLAYOUT>
About UTF-8 encoded data
All XML data generated by the Web Companion is encoded in
UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation 8 Bit) format. This format
compresses data from the standard Unicode format of 16 bits to 8 bits
for ASCII characters. XML parsers are required to support Unicode
and UTF-8 encoding.
UTF-8 encoding includes direct representations of most of the
characters used in English using values of 0-127 for the standard
ASCII set of characters, and provides multibyte encodings for
Unicode characters with higher values. UTF-8 encoded data is
compressed almost in half (lower ASCII characters are compressed
from 2 bytes to 1 byte), which helps data download faster.
Note Because your XML data is UTF-8 encoded, some upper ASCII
characters will be represented by 2 or 3 characters in the text editor—
they will appear as single characters only in the XML parser or
browser.