Developer’s Guide

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Creating custom layout themes 3-11

Checking your theme document for errors

FileMaker Pro cannot parse an XML theme document that is not

well-formed, and it does not validate the XML in your documents.

If one required item is missing or wrong, FileMaker Pro will ignore

the entire document.

Here is a list of things to check for if your new layout themes don’t

appear in the New Layout/Report assistant as expected:

1 The theme filename has the .fth extension.

1 The theme file is in text format.

1 The theme file is located in the Themes folder inside the

FileMaker Pro application folder.

1 All required elements are there, including their start and end tags:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" ?>

</FMTHEME>

</FMTHEMES>

1 All elements are complete—there are no missing attributes, values,

quotation marks, start tags, or end tags.

1 All values are enclosed in quotation marks (“value”)—there are no

missing opening or closing quotation marks, and there are no missing

values (no blank quotation marks “ ”).

1 All elements and attributes are spelled correctly.

1 All attribute values are spelled correctly and are valid.

1 Every single-line element ends with />.

1 All multi-line elements are spelled correctly and their start and end

tags match, for example, <BODYPART> and </BODYPART>.