The Export Template view for XHTML
Each DataWindow object that you create has a default XHTML export
template associated with it. You can see the default template in the
DataWindow painter’s Export Template view for XHTML.
Displaying the XHTML export template
The Export Template view for XHTML coexists with the Export
Template view for XML, each on its own tab page with XML on the top by
default. To display the view for XHTML, click the XHTML tab. If you have
any problems displaying the view, select View>Export/Import
Template>XHTML from the menu bar or select View>Layouts>Default
and then click the XHTML tab.
The XHTML export template is a single-instance document of the
<form> element. It stores only the structural layout and any changes
that you make to the elements, attributes, and style declarations. When
XHTML is generated, these changes are incorporated into the <form>
element and the CSS stylesheet used to render the DataWindow in the
browser. More than one export template can be created for a
DataWindow.
Default style rules and most default attributes are not stored in
the template. Any changes to style declarations are stored in the
template, but at runtime they are removed and applied to the separately
generated CSS stylesheet.
In the Export Template view for XHTML, you can reference DataWindow
column, computed field, and text controls, and DataWindow expressions for
each row in the XHTML, wherever character data is allowed. At runtime,
these are replaced with text.