I know that I can use the DXL Tools in ND6 to Export a form as an XML Document, but is there anyway to get an XSLT file of the same form?I want to use Domino Designer to be able to design Notes and Web forms then be able to export both the XML and XSLT which can later be used (via Xalan) to regen the original Notes Doc over the web.
TIA
Mike Barlow
Subject: Exporting XSLT of Domino Form
Can you expand on what you mean by “an XSLT file of the same form”?
Are looking for the form to be represented as an XSLT which could be applied to the DXL for a notes document so that it would end up looking like what you get if you open the document directly from the web using the domino web server?
Subject: RE: Exporting XSLT of Domino Form
Yep, that’s exactly what I am looking for.Yes I know the next question is probably “What’s the point?”
The reason is that is that I am using Domino for some web sites and a client wants to start using XML and XSLT for generating/rendering Web pages (they have been swayed by the hype) And I am trying to figure out how to do this without designing the page twice, once in Domino then again starting all over from scratch in some XSLT designer.
TIA
Mike B.
Subject: RE: Exporting XSLT of Domino Form
What you want to do isn’t available yet. However, the idea of it has been discussed as a possible future enhancement to the product.
Right now, the best you could do would be to get the DXL of the form itself, then transform that into an XSL sheet. This has been done with views for a project at OpenNTF. However, dealing with forms will be considerably more complicated. After all, you’re talking about re-writing the bulk of the complexity of Domino’s HTML-rendering engine.