Custom Web Publishing Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introducing Custom Web Publishing
- Chapter 2 Preparing databases for Custom Web Publishing
- Chapter 3 Accessing XML data with the Web Publishing Engine
- Using Custom Web Publishing with XML
- General process for accessing XML data from the Web Publishing Engine
- About the URL syntax for XML data and container objects
- Accessing XML data via the Web Publishing Engine
- Using the fmresultset grammar
- Using other FileMaker XML grammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Using FileMaker query strings to request XML data
- Switching layouts for an XML response
- Understanding how an XML request is processed
- Using server-side and client-side processing of stylesheets
- Troubleshooting XML document access
- Chapter 4 Introduction to Custom Web Publishing with XSLT
- Chapter 5 Developing FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- Using XSLT stylesheets with the Web Publishing Engine
- About the FileMaker XSLT Extension Function Reference
- About the URL syntax for FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- About the URL syntax for FileMaker container objects in XSLT solutions
- Using query strings in FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- Specifying an XML grammar for a FileMaker XSLT stylesheet
- About namespaces and prefixes for FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- Using statically defined query commands and query parameters
- Setting text encoding for requests
- Specifying an output method and encoding
- About the encoding of XSLT stylesheets
- Processing XSLT requests that do not query FileMaker Server
- Using tokens to pass information between stylesheets
- Using the FileMaker XSLT extension functions and parameters
- About the FileMaker-specific XSLT parameters set by the Web Publishing Engine
- Accessing the query information in a request
- Obtaining client information
- Using the Web Publishing Engine base URI parameter
- Using the authenticated base URI parameter
- Loading additional documents
- Using a database’s layout information in a stylesheet
- Using content buffering
- Using Web Publishing Engine sessions to store information between requests
- Using the session extension functions
- Sending email messages from the Web Publishing Engine
- Using the header functions
- Using the cookie extension functions
- Using the string manipulation extension functions
- Comparing strings using Perl 5 regular expressions
- Checking for values in a field formatted as a checkbox
- Using the date, time, and day extension functions
- Checking the error status of extension functions
- Using logging
- Chapter 6 Testing and monitoring a site
- Appendix A Valid names used in query strings
- About the query commands and parameters
- Using the query commands
- -dbnames (Database names) query command
- -delete (Delete record) query command
- -dup (Duplicate record) query command
- -edit (Edit record) query command
- -find, -findall, or -findany (Find records) query commands
- -layoutnames (Layout names) query command
- -new (New record) query command
- -process (Process XSLT stylesheets)
- -scriptnames (Script names) query command
- -view (View layout information) query command
- Using the query parameters
- -db (Database name) query parameter
- -encoding (Encoding XSLT request) query parameter
- -field (Container field name) query parameter
- fieldname (Non-container field name) query parameter
- fieldname.op (Comparison operator) query parameter
- -grammar (Grammar for XSLT stylesheets) query parameter
- -lay (Layout) query parameter
- -lay.response (Switch layout for response) query parameter
- -lop (Logical operator) query parameter
- -max (Maximum records) query parameter
- -modid (Modification ID) query parameter
- -recid (Record ID) query parameter
- -script (Script) query parameter
- -script.prefind (Script before Find) query parameter
- -script.presort (Script before Sort) query parameter
- -skip (Skip records) query parameter
- -sortfield (Sort field) query parameter
- -sortorder (Sort order) query parameter
- -styletype (Style type) query parameter
- -stylehref (Style href) query parameter
- -token.[string] (Pass values between XSLT stylesheets) query parameter
- Appendix B Error codes for Custom Web Publishing
- Appendix C Converting CDML solutions to FileMaker XSLT
- About the process of converting CDML solutions to FileMaker XSLT solutions
- Conversion of CDML action tags, variable tags, and URLs
- Conversion of the -error and -errornum CDML variable tags
- Conversion of obsolete CDML action tags
- Conversion of supported CDML action tags
- Conversion of obsolete CDML variable tags
- Conversion of supported CDML variable tags
- Conversion of CDML boolean parameters to XPath boolean parameters
- Conversion of CDML boolean operators to XPath
- Conversion of CDML intratag parameters to XSLT-CWP
- Manually fixing CDML conversion errors
- Conversion of CDML replacement tags to XSLT-CWP
- Index
26 Custom Web Publishing Guide
Depending on the grammar you specify in the URL request, the Web Publishing Engine will generate an XML
document using one of the grammars. Each XML document contains a default XML namespace declaration
for the grammar. See the next section,
“About namespaces for FileMaker XML.” Use one of these grammars
in your document or web page to display and work with FileMaker data in XML format.
Note XML data generated by the Web Publishing Engine is encoded using UTF-8 format (Unicode
Transformation Format 8). See
“About UTF-8 encoded data” on page 33.
About namespaces for FileMaker XML
Unique XML namespaces help distinguish XML tags by the application they were designed for. For example,
if your XML document contains two
<DATABASE> elements, one for FileMaker XML data and another for
Oracle XML data, the namespaces will identify the
<DATABASE> element for each.
The Web Publishing Engine generates a default namespace for each grammar.
About FileMaker database error codes
The Web Publishing Engine returns an error code in the error code elements at the beginning of each XML
document that represents the error, if any, in the execution of the most recently executed query command. A
value of zero (0) is returned for no error.
The error code element in the XML document indicates errors related to the database and query strings. Other
types of errors can also occur for XSLT stylesheets and are handled differently. See
appendix B, “Error codes
for Custom Web Publishing.”
Retrieving the document type definitions for the FileMaker grammars
You can retrieve the document type definitions (DTDs) for the FileMaker grammars by using an HTTP
request.
For this grammar This default namespace is generated
fmresultset xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/xml/fmresultset"
FMPXMLRESULT xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpxmlresult"
FMPXMLLAYOUT xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpxmllayout"
For this grammar This syntax is used
fmresultset <error code="0"></error>
FMPXMLRESULT <ERRORCODE>0</ERRORCODE>
FMPDSORESULT <ERRORCODE>0</ERRORCODE>
For this grammar Use this HTTP request
fmresultset http://<host>[:<port]/fmi/xml/fmresultset.dtd
FMPXMLRESULT http://<host>[:<port]/fmi/xml/FMPXMLRESULT.dtd
FMPXMLLAYOUT http://<host>[:<port]/fmi/xml/FMPXMLLAYOUT.dtd
FMPDSORESULT http://<host>[:<port]/fmi/xml/FMPDSORESULT.dtd?-db=<database>&-lay=<layout>