Custom Web Publishing Guide

Contents 5
Using FileMaker XSLT stylesheets in a web site or program 45
Troubleshooting XSLT stylesheets 46
Chapter 5
Developing FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
Using XSLT stylesheets with the Web Publishing Engine 47
About the FileMaker XSLT Extension Function Reference 48
A bout the URL syntax for FileMaker XSLT stylesheets 48
About the URL syntax for FileMaker container objects in XSLT solutions 48
U sing query strings in FileMaker XSLT stylesheets 49
Specifying an XML grammar for a FileMaker XSLT stylesheet 50
About namespaces and prefixes for FileMaker XSLT stylesheets 50
Using statically defined query commands and query parameters 51
Setting text encoding for requests 52
Specifying an output method and encoding 53
About the encoding of XSLT stylesheets 53
P rocessing XSLT requests that do not query FileMaker Server 53
Using tokens to pass information between stylesheets 54
Using the FileMaker XSLT extension functions and parameters 54
About the FileMaker-specific XSLT parameters set by the Web Publishing Engine 54
Accessing the query information in a request 55
Obtaining client information 56
Using the Web Publishing Engine base URI parameter 56
Using the authenticated base URI parameter 56
Loading additional documents 57
Using a database’s layout information in a stylesheet 57
Using content buffering 58
Using Web Publishing Engine sessions to store information between requests 58
Using the session extension functions 59
Sending email messages from the Web Publishing Engine 61
Using the header functions 62
Using the cookie extension functions 63
Using the string manipulation extension functions 64
Comparing strings using Perl 5 regular expressions 65
Checking for values in a field formatted as a checkbox 65
Using the date, time, and day extension functions 66
Checking the error status of extension functions 70
Using logging 70