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Saving, importing, and exporting data
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8. Choose File menu > Open.
9. In the Open dialog box, for Files of type (Windows) or Show (OS X), choose XML Data
Source.
The Specify XML and XSL Options dialog box appears.
10. For Specify XML Data Source, choose the source of the XML data to import.
The XML source can be a file or the result of an HTTP request. See About importing data using
an HTTP request.
11. To apply an XSLT style sheet to the XML before importing, select Use XSL style sheet and
specify the source of the XSLT style sheet.
When the XML you’re importing does not conform to the FMPXMLRESULT DTD, you must
apply an XSLT style sheet that transforms the XML into the proper grammar. The XSLT source
may be a file or the result of an HTTP request. See
About importing data using an HTTP
request.
12. Click Continue.
Using a Xerces-based XML parser and a Xalan-based XSLT processor, FileMaker Pro applies
an XSLT style sheet (if you specified one) to transform the XML data. If an error message
appears, correct the error and try importing again.
13. Do one of the following:
Notes
• For details about the requirements for well-formed XML, see the XML specification, which is
available at
http://www.w3.org/XML/.
• FileMaker Pro uses the Xerces-C++ XML parser, which supports XML data in the following
character encodings:
• ASCII
• UTF-8
• UTF-16 (Big/Small Endian)
• UCS4 (Big/Small Endian)
• EBCDIC in both IBM037 and IBM1140 encodings
• ISO-8859-1 (Latin1)
• Windows-1252
Although Windows-1252 is the default character encoding on Windows, this character encoding
is not widely recognized by other XML processing tools. If you’re using a Windows-based
editing tool to generate XML, check the encoding="..." declaration to see which character set it
If you are importing XML Do this
Into an existing FileMaker Pro file The Import Field Mapping dialog box appears, where you
choose the type of import to perform and map fields in your
database to the data to import. (See
Setting the import action
and mapping fields during import.) Choose options in the dialog
box, then click Import.
By converting the XML into a new
FileMaker
Pro file
The Name Converted File dialog box appears. Type a name for
the new file, choose a location, then click Save.