Custom Web Publishing Guide

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62 FileMaker Server Advanced Custom Web Publishing Guide

To load a password-protected XML document that requires a different user name and password than what

was speciﬁed in the parent request, then use the following syntax to specify the user name and password as

part of the URI that is passed to the

document() function:

http://username:password@hostname/path?querystring

To load an XML document that is not based on a FileMaker database, use the document() function without

FileMaker query commands or query parameters. For example:

<xsl:variable name="other-data" select="document('http://server.company.com/data.xml')" />

If you use the document() function with a relative URL, the Web Publishing Engine will attempt to load the

XML document from the local ﬁle system in the location relative to where the stylesheet is stored. For

example, suppose a stylesheet that is located inside the

mystylesheets folder inside the xslt-template-files

folder contains the following

document() function with a relative URL:

<xsl:variable name="mydoc" select="document('mystylesheets/mydoc.xml')" />

The Web Publishing Engine will attempt to load mydoc.xml from the mystylesheets folder inside the xslt-

template-files

folder in the local ﬁle system.

Note When you use the Web Publishing Engine’s base URI to load a document, the Web Publishing Engine

supports HTTP only. When you load a document from an external server, the Web Publishing Engine

supports both HTTP and HTTPS.

Using a database’s layout information in a stylesheet

You can incorporate a FileMaker database’s layout information in a stylesheet by using the FMPXMLLAYOUT

grammar to request the information and then loading it into a variable via the XSLT

document() function:

<xsl:variable name="layout" select="document(concat($xml-base-uri,'/fmi/xml/FMPXMLLAYOUT.xml?–view'))" />

For example, suppose you wanted to create a pull down menu for a field named Color that is populated with

the values from a value list named

shirts that are defined in a layout in a FileMaker database. Here’s how

you can use the

document() function to load the layout information into a XSLT variable:

<xsl:variable name="layout" select="document(concat($xml-base-uri,'/fmi/xml/FMPXMLLAYOUT.xml?–db=products

&–lay=sales&–view'))" />

<xsl:attribute name="name">Color</xsl:attribute>

<option value="">Select One...</option>

<xsl:for-each select="$layout/fml:FMPXMLLAYOUT/fml:VALUELISTS/fml:VALUELIST[@NAME = 'shirts']/

fml:VALUE">

<xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:attribute>

<xsl:value-of select="."/>

</option>

</xsl:for-each>

</select>