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IBM 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.
document (Domino DTD)
Represents a data note interpreted as a document. The DXL Exporter can interpret more of the items contained in a note when the note is transformed into DXL as a document element instead of as a note element.
Examples: DXL output for a document element
The following text file excerpt represents the DXL output for a Notes document. The document was created using the Customer form and contains two fields, a text field named "name" and a date-time field named "date."

Examples: DXL output for a document element

The following text file excerpt represents the DXL output for a Notes document. The document was created using the Customer form and contains two fields, a text field named "name" and a date-time field named "date."

The See Also section lists the elements that are illustrated in DXL format in this example.

Note that the attributes for each element are listed within the angle brackets of the element's opening tag. The location of the element's closing tag illustrates the containment hierarchy of the element. For example, the closing tag for the document element does not appear until the end of the example, illustrating that all the other elements listed are contained by the <document> element.

<document form="Customers"> 
	<noteinfo noteid="942" unid="431A199A6FCC9C0985256A54005041A1" 			sequence="1"> 
		<created> 
			<datetime dst="true">20010522T103636,81-04</datetime> 
		</created> 
		<modified> 
			<datetime dst="true">20010522T103709,78-04</datetime> 
		</modified> 
		<revised> 
			<datetime dst="true">20010522T103709,77-04</datetime> 
		</revised> 
		<lastaccessed> 
			<datetime dst="true">20010522T103709,77-04</datetime>
		</lastaccessed> 
		<addedtofile> 
			<datetime dst="true">20010522T103709,77-04</datetime>
		</addedtofile> 
	</noteinfo> 
	<updatedby>
		<name>CN=Michelle Lally/OU=CAM/O=Acme</name> 
	</updatedby> 
	<item name="date"> 
		<datetime>20010601</datetime> 
	</item> 
	<item name="name"> 
		<text>Harry Hill</text> 
	</item> 
	</document>