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
Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data 5-5
Using the FileMaker Pro Extended
XML grammars
The FileMaker Pro Extended XML grammars contain additional
information about field types, value lists and layouts that is not found
in the FMPDSORESULT grammar. Use the FMPXMLRESULT and
FMPXMLLAYOUT grammars if you require layout information or
want the METADATA information provided by these grammars.
Note These grammars are not well suited for cascading style sheets
with positioning. See “Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar” on
page 5-3 if you want to use CSS with your XML data.
When you specify “–fmp_xml” as the format for a FileMaker Pro
CGI request, the Web Companion will generate XML data using
either the FMPXMLRESULT or FMPXMLLAYOUT grammar,
depending on the request you specify in the CGI command:
1 The Web Companion will generate the FMPXMLRESULT
grammar when you specify –edit, –delete, –find, –new,
–dbnames, –layoutnames, –scriptnames or –dbopen as the
FileMaker CGI request.
1 The Web Companion will generate the FMPXMLLAYOUT
grammar when you specify –view as the FileMaker CGI request.
The Web Companion will also generate the document type definition
for the grammar if you specify “–fmp_xml_dtd” as the format. This
is useful if you want an XML parser to validate the XML before your
document goes to production.
For a list of valid FileMaker CGI requests, see “Generating
FileMaker Pro CGI requests for an XML document” on page 5-8.
Note When using XML grammars, you should do a case-insensitive
compare for proper results.
Description of elements in the FMPXMLRESULT grammar
In the generated FMPXMLRESULT grammar, the DATABASE
element contains attributes for the name of the database, the number
of records in the database, the name of the layout that was used to
generate the result set, and the format of dates and times in the XML
document.
The DATEFORMAT attribute specifies the format of dates in the
XML document.
The TIMEFORMAT attribute specifies the format of times in the
XML document.
The METADATA element contains one or more FIELD elements,
each containing information for one of the fields/columns of the
result set—including the name of the field as defined in the database,
the field type, the Yes or No allowance for empty fields (EMPTYOK
attribute) and the maximum number of repeating values
(MAXREPEAT attribute). Valid values for field types are TEXT,
NUMBER, DATE, TIME, and CONTAINER.
Field Full form Short form
Year yyyy (4 digits) yy (2 digits)
Month mm (2 digits) M (1 or 2 digits)
Day dd (2 digits) d (1 or 2 digits)
Field Full form Short form
Hour (1 – 12) hh (2 digits) h (1 or 2 digits)
Hour (1 – 24) kk (2 digits) k (1 or 2 digits)
Minute mm
Second ss
AM/PM a