Custom Web Publishing Guide

Contents
Chapter 1
Introducing Custom Web Publishing 9
About this guide 10
Creating dynamic web sites with the Web Publishing Engine 10
About Custom Web Publishing with XML 11
About Custom Web Publishing with XSLT 11
About the tools for developing XSLT stylesheets 12
Web publishing requirements 12
What is required to publish a database using Custom Web Publishing 12
What web users need to access a Custom Web Publishing solution 12
Connecting to the Internet or an intranet 13
Key f eatures in Custom Web Publishing with XML and XSLT 13
FileMaker scripts and Custom Web Publishing 14
Script tips and considerations 14
Migrating web publishing solutions from previous versions of FileMaker Pro 16
Where to go from here 17
Chapter 2
Preparing databases for Custom Web Publishing 19
Enabling Custom Web Publishing in a database 19
When web users use Custom Web Publishing to access a protected database 19
Protecting your published databases 20
Web server support for Internet media types (MIME) 21
About publishing the contents of container fields on the web 21
Publishing container field objects stored in a database 21
Publishing container field objects stored as a file reference 21
How web users can use container field data 21
Chapter 3
Accessing XML data with the Web Publishing Engine 23
Using Custom Web Publishing with XML 23
Differences between the Web Publishing Engine and FileMaker Pro XML Import/Export 23
How the Web Publishing Engine generates XML data from a request 24
General process for accessing XML data from the Web Publishing Engine 25
About the URL syntax for XML data and container objects 25
What’s new in the URL syntax for XML dat a 26
About the URL syntax for XML data 26
About the URL syntax for FileMaker container objects in XML solutions 27
About URL text encoding 28