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
- Using server-side processing of scripting languages
- 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.param (Pass parameter to Script) query parameter
- -script.prefind (Script before Find) query parameter
- -script.prefind.param (Pass parameter to Script before Find) query parameter
- -script.presort (Script before Sort) query parameter
- -script.presort.param (Pass parameter to Script before Sort) query parameter
- -skip (Skip records) query parameter
- -sortfield (Sort field) query parameter
- -sortorder (Sort order) query parameter
- -stylehref (Style href) query parameter
- -styletype (Style type) 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
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Index 169
V
values, checking for in checkboxes 70
vCards, reformatting XML data into 23
–view query command 92
W
web browsers
receiving output 9
role in XML requests 24
role in XSLT-CWP requests 42
Web folder, copying container field objects 21
Web Publishing Core
illustrated 24, 42
internal access logs 84
Web Publishing Engine
Administration Console 17–25, 43
application log 83
benefits of 10
described 9
Development mode 109
generated error codes 103
generating pages from XSLT stylesheet 42
generating XML data 24
generating XML documents 25
Production mode 110
Web Security Databases, not supported 16
web server
log files 82
MIME type support 21
role in XML requests 24
role in XSLT-CWP requests 42
web sites
creating with Web Publishing Engine 10
FileMaker support pages 10
monitoring 82
testing 81
web users
accessing protected databases 19, 60, 61
requirements for accessing Custom Web
Publishing solutions 12
using container field data 21
web_server_module_log.txt log file 83
wpc_access_log.txt file 84
X
XML
described 23
document type definitions (DTDs) 29, 30, 33
enabling in database 19
encoded using UTF-8 format 28, 36
filtering data 23
FMPXMLLAYOUT grammar 34
FMPXMLRESULT grammar 33
fmresultset grammar 30
<datasource> element 30
<metadata> element 30
<resultset> element 31
generating XML data from request 24
grammars, described 28
namespaces for 29
order of request processing 38
parsers 25, 36
query strings 36, 85
requesting data 25
summary of steps for accessing XML data 25
troubleshooting access to XML documents 40
URL text encoding 28
using client-side stylesheets 39
XML 1.0 specification 23
XML-stylesheet processing instruction 39
XML request
specifying layout 38
XML response
switching layout 38
XPath statements 59
<xsl:stylesheet> element 55, 59, 60, 81, 114
<xsl:message> element 76
<xsl:output> element 57
<xsl:param> element 59
<xsl:param name="authenticated-xml-base-uri"/>
parameter 61
<xsl:param name="client-ip"/> parameter 60
<xsl:param name="client-password"/>
parameter 60
<xsl:param name="client-user-name"/>
parameter 60
<xsl:param name="request-query"/> parameter 59
<xsl:param name="xml-base-uri"/> parameter 61
<xsl:template> element 60, 61, 81, 82, 114, 117
<xsl:variable> element 61