Domino (was List Archive Availability)

Hi Andrew - I was right then that netWindows would be of interest to Domino developers :-)  I don't see that many of us around the net (outside of Domino specific sites) - but I think the kind of framework behind something like netWindows would appeal to us because we know how much rich-client functionality we are missing when we move from doing Notes apps to web apps.  BTW, I've seen your name around quite a bit.  Just did a quick check - and we've participated in discussions before.

Thanks for the push toward XSL.  Except when my principles dictate otherwise (which is more often than I like) I'm one for taking the path of least resistance.  At the moment it's more useful for me to get a stronger understanding of the W3C DOM via Javascript, than looking into XSLT.  Also, thanks for the heads up on the openNTF project.  I'd come across that some time ago, but it using XSLT and not being cross-browser (there goes those principles again!), I shied away from it.  If I can achieve all that I want just using Domino and netWindows that's enough for me :-)

I'm aiming to get a generic solution in place so that I can just transform Notes' hierachical views into the netWindows tree structures.  The thing that I have been stuck on is being able to wrap the change in DocLevels with the ending </div> tag - I've resorted to using the DocNumbers and processing that as representing the tree structure before passing it on to the browser.  I expect it would be easier if I was using R6 because of the greater influence of XML vending in it.

The problem with ReadViewEntries (as I understand it) is just produces a generic XML representation of the view's structure.  Indeed, I think I would still be back to the problem of closing tags in a response hierarchy with any other XML representation of the view.  I guess from the increased presence of XSLT in R6 that that is the way that IBM expect people to interface with Domino via XML.

When I get this working in a way that is generic I am aiming to bring it to the attention of sites like codestore, notestips and openNTF.  I've learned so much from those people, I'm itching to be able to give something back.

Bernard
  


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