Developer’s Guide

7-8 Developer’s Guide
The UTF-8 encoding format includes the following features:
1 All ASCII characters are one-byte UTF-8 characters. A legal
ASCII string is a legal UTF-8 string.
1 Any non-ASCII character (i.e., any character with the high-order
bit set) is part of a multibyte character.
1 The first byte of any UTF-8 character indicates the number of
additional bytes in the character.
1 The first byte of a multibyte character is easily distinguished from
the subsequent bytes. Thus, it is easy to locate the start of a character
from an arbitrary position in a data stream.
1 It is easy to convert between UTF-8 and other Unicode encoding
schemes like UTF-16.
1 The UTF-8 encoding is relatively compact. For text with a large
percentage of ASCII characters, it is more compact than Unicode. In
the worst case, a UTF-8 string is only 50% larger than the
corresponding UTF-16 string.
Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests for
an XML document
You use FileMaker Pro CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
commands to generate requests for XML data from your database.
For example, to generate a –find request to display all employees
from a database, web users might click on a link containing the
following FileMaker Pro CGI command:
FMPro?–db=employees.fp5&–format= –dso_xml&
–styletype=text/css&–stylehref=stylesheet.css&–find
Request and parameter names
The following tables list the request and parameter names in name/
value pairs you can use in a FileMaker Pro CGI command when
requesting data in XML format.
For more information and examples, see appendix B, “Valid names
used in CGI requests for FileMaker Pro XML data.”
Use this request name To generate this request
–new New record
–edit Edit record
–delete Delete record
–find Find record(s)
–findall Find all records
–findany find a random record
–view View layout info (in FMPXMLLAYOUT
grammar)
–dbnames Retrieve names of all open and web-shared
databases
–layoutnames Retrieve names of all available layouts for a
specified open, web-shared database
–scriptnames Retrieve names of all available scripts for a
specified open, web-shared database
–dbopen Open a database that’s in the Web folder with
Remote Administration enabled
–dbclose Close a database that’s in the Web folder with
Remote Administration enabled
Use these
parameter names To go with these requests
–db (database name) Required for all requests except –dbnames
–lay (layout name) Required for –view, and with –edit or –new
requests for data in related fields and portals.
Optional for –find, –findall
–format Required for all requests. (Use one of these
formats: –dso_xml, –dso_xml_dtd, –fmp_xml, or
–fmp_xml_dtd)
–recid (record I.D.) Required for –edit and –delete. Optional for –find