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HCL Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
Basic product usage information and programming language reference information.
Programming Overview and User Interface
This section contains general guidelines and examples that show where to use Java, LotusScript, and the formula language.
XML for Domino
The following topics cover some general guidelines for using XML in Domino applications and list all the elements, attributes, and entities in the Domino Document Type Definition (DTD):
The Domino DTD
The Domino Document Type Definition (DTD) describes the structure of DXL, the Domino version of Extensible Markup Language (XML). The DTD contains the definitions of the XML tags that you can use to validate your XML documents while converting external XML data into Domino databases or to understand any XML documents produced while exporting internal Domino databases into XML.
namedelementlink (Domino DTD)
Represents a link to a named design element. If the link is empty, represents a standard non-hot Notes link. If the link contains rich text, represents a hotspot link. You activate non-hot Notes links by clicking the Notes icon that represents the link in rich text. You activate hotspot links by clicking any part of the rich text they contain.
Examples: DXL output for a namedelementlink element
The following text file excerpt represents the DXL output for a named element link.

Examples: DXL output for a namedelementlink element

The following text file excerpt represents the DXL output for a named element link.

Note that an element's attributes, those for the pardef element, for example, are listed within the angle brackets of the element's opening tag. Since the pardef element contains no other elements, its opening tag closes with a slash (/). Note also that the opening tag for the par element does not need to include several attributes to define its format; it instead references the pardef element (def="3") to incorporate the formatting values defined therein. Opening and closing run element tags surround the font element tag; this illustrates that the font element is contained by the run element.

<pardef id="3" align="none" leftmargin="1in" spacebefore="1.5" hide="web" /> 
<par def="3"> 
	This 
	<namedelementlink showborder="false" type="form" name="info"> 
		<run> 
			<font color="system" /> 
			text 
		</run> 
	</namedelementlink> 
	is hot. 
</par>