- Generate xPages from your views
The Dublin workshop has concluded. Others
have reported and I start playing with automating upgrading your existing
applications to include xPages. In a nutshell: xPages allows scripting
your application end-to-end in JavaScript. JavaScript on the client and
the server and just a selection for you to decide what runs where. Of course
JavaScript is not a Domino server languages in older Notes versions, so
you need to do something about your @Formula and LotusScript. But that's
a topic for another time.
xPages are stored as XML. Existing Domino design elements can be exported with reasonably accuracy as DXL which is XML too. So with a little XSLT the both might be fit onto each other.
A Domino view starts with <view name=', while an xPage starts with <xp:viewPanel . Different names but similar structure! A column in a Notes view is represented by <column itemname=, the column in the xPage with <xp:viewColumn columnName=. Again just different names. To get from all your views to xPages follow the following steps:
xPages are stored as XML. Existing Domino design elements can be exported with reasonably accuracy as DXL which is XML too. So with a little XSLT the both might be fit onto each other.
A Domino view starts with <view name=', while an xPage starts with <xp:viewPanel . Different names but similar structure! A column in a Notes view is represented by <column itemname=, the column in the xPage with <xp:viewColumn columnName=. Again just different names. To get from all your views to xPages follow the following steps:
- Create one xPage that looks the way your stuff should look like.
- Switch to the source view, cut and paste it into your favorite XSLT editor.
- Replace the variable parts (the columns) with XSLT template logic. Save the file into [NotesData]/xsl
- Use the DXLTools - Transformer to apply that one by one to your views (you could script that)
- Switch to the Java perspective and import
the resulting files back in your NSF.
The sample is really short:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0" xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core"
xmlns:d='http://www.lotus.com/dxl'>
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//d:view" />
</xp:view>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="d:view">
<xsl:variable name="panelid"><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></xsl:variable>
<xp:viewPanel rows="30" viewStyle="width:100%">
<xsl:attribute name="id">viewPanel<xsl:value-of select="$panelid" /></xsl:attribute>
<xp:this.facets>
<xp:pager layout="Previous Group Next" xp:key="headerPager"
id="pager1">
</xp:pager>
</xp:this.facets>
<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoView>
<xsl:attribute name="var"><xsl:value-of select="$panelid" /></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="viewName"><xsl:value-of select="$panelid" /></xsl:attribute>
</xp:dominoView>
</xp:this.data>
<xsl:apply-templates select="d:column" />
</xp:viewPanel>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="d:column">
<xsl:variable name="colid">viewColumn<xsl:value-of select="position()" /></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="headid">viewColumnHeader<xsl:value-of select="position()" /></xsl:variable>
<xp:viewColumn>
<xsl:attribute name="columnName"><xsl:value-of select="d:columnheader/@title" /></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="$colid" /></xsl:attribute>
<xp:viewColumnHeader>
<xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="d:columnheader/@title" /></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="$headid" /></xsl:attribute>
</xp:viewColumnHeader>
</xp:viewColumn>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0" xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core"
xmlns:d='http://www.lotus.com/dxl'>
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//d:view" />
</xp:view>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="d:view">
<xsl:variable name="panelid"><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></xsl:variable>
<xp:viewPanel rows="30" viewStyle="width:100%">
<xsl:attribute name="id">viewPanel<xsl:value-of select="$panelid" /></xsl:attribute>
<xp:this.facets>
<xp:pager layout="Previous Group Next" xp:key="headerPager"
id="pager1">
</xp:pager>
</xp:this.facets>
<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoView>
<xsl:attribute name="var"><xsl:value-of select="$panelid" /></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="viewName"><xsl:value-of select="$panelid" /></xsl:attribute>
</xp:dominoView>
</xp:this.data>
<xsl:apply-templates select="d:column" />
</xp:viewPanel>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="d:column">
<xsl:variable name="colid">viewColumn<xsl:value-of select="position()" /></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="headid">viewColumnHeader<xsl:value-of select="position()" /></xsl:variable>
<xp:viewColumn>
<xsl:attribute name="columnName"><xsl:value-of select="d:columnheader/@title" /></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="$colid" /></xsl:attribute>
<xp:viewColumnHeader>
<xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="d:columnheader/@title" /></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="$headid" /></xsl:attribute>
</xp:viewColumnHeader>
</xp:viewColumn>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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