Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited
- Chapter 1 Installing the FileMaker Web Server Connector
- Chapter 2 Administering the Web Server Connector
- Chapter 3 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMakerPro Web Companion
- Creating a custom home page
- Creating a custom home page for Instant Web Publishing
- Creating a custom web site using a database layout
- Web Companion support for Internet mediatypes
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Chapter 4 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- Modified CDML tags
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 5 Using FileMakerPro XML to deliver your data
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMakerPro Extended XMLgrammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XMLdocument
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 6 Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBCDriver
- FileMakerPro support for Unicodecharacters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMakerPro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventoryapplication
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Using the FileMaker Java classes
- Appendix A Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker XML data
- Generating a –find, –findall, or –findany request
- Generating a –view request
- Generating a –new request
- Generating an –edit request
- Generating a –delete request
- Generating a –dbnames request
- Generating a –layoutnames request
- Generating a –scriptnames request
- Generating a –dbopen request
- Generating a –dbclose request
- Specifying parameters for the request
- –db (Database)
- –lay (Layout)
- –format (Format)
- –recid (Record ID)
- –modid (Modification ID)
- –lop (Logical operator)
- –op (Comparison operator)
- –max (Maximum records)
- –skip (Skip records)
- –sortfield (Sort field)
- –sortorder (Sort order)
- –script (Script)
- –script.prefind (Script before Find)
- –script.presort (Script before Sort)
- –styletype (Style type)
- –stylehref (Style href)
- –password (Database password)
- field name (Name of specific field)
- Appendix B FileMaker Pro values for error codes
- Appendix C Enabling the FileMaker Pro Web Companion in MacOS X
- Index
Chapter 5
Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data
With the enhanced Web Companion, FileMaker Pro 5.5 and
FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited can deliver data from your database to
the Web in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. In the same
way that HTML has become the standard display language for
communication on the World Wide Web, XML promises to become
the standard language for structured data interchange.
In XML format, FileMaker Pro data can be populated in your web
page programmatically instead of downloading statically from the
server. This gives you more flexibility and a more web-like
application that allows your web users to interact with the data after
it has been downloaded. This also allows the web server to handle
more requests as more processing is done by the browser on web
users’ machines.
About the XML examples
The FMWSC and Tools CD includes an XML example that
demonstrates how you can publish your database on the Web using
XML and Dynamic HTML (including JavaScript). This XML
example is designed to work in the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 for
Windows web browser. For step-by-step instructions, see “Looking
at the XML Inventory example” on page 5-17.
For examples showing the differences between using stylesheets or
scripting (Dynamic HTML) with your FileMaker Pro XML
documents, see “Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript” on
page 5-11.
For general information on XML (including a glossary of XML
terms), additional examples that use XML, and links to XML
resources, see the FileMaker, Inc. web site at www.filemaker.com.
As a shortcut to the site, double-click FileMaker on the Web (included
on the FileMaker Pro CD).
List View of the Inventory.fp5 database in the XML Inventory example