DTD for DataSource

[mitda]

Can you please post a link to the DTD of DataSource XML? I wanted to see what my options are, what tags, attributes are available, what possible values can be assigned to those, etc.
I know that the DataSource XML can customize a lot of things that would drive the way data is loaded into DataBound components. I just wanted to see the breadth of those options.

Thanks in advance,

[Isomorphic]

It's here (it's not a DTD).

[mitda]

Thanks for the quick pointer. However is there any future plan to make a DTD of the XML? It would be a perfect one stop reference for all possibilities of DS XML configurations. Will be truly very useful to all.
Thanks in advance,

[bill.erskine]

I'd also like to see a DTD for the DataSource. In particular, I need to specify valid operators for a particular field. Can you provide/reference an example?
Also, a sample of valueMap which has a display value and data value.

[Isomorphic]

There isn't a DTD because the format is extensible. There's this reference.

Several sample DataSources show valueMaps, such as this one.

There's a few different APIs for controlling the valid operator (eg SimpleType, and programmatic calls to setTypeOperators()). Doing it in XML would look like:

<fields>
    <field name="foo" type="text">
        <validOperators>equals</validOperators>
        <validOperators>lessThan</validOperators>
        <validOperators>greaterThan</validOperators>
    </field>
</fields>

If you were returning it to a FilterBuilder.fieldDataSource, what would be expected, building on the List of HashMaps example from the other thread, would be a key in the Map "validOperators" whose value is a List of Strings.

[bill.erskine]

Thanks, that was a help however, I discovered it's actually <validOperators> instead of <typeOperators>

<fields>
    <field name="foo" type="text">
        <validOperators>equals</validOperators>
        <validOperators>lessThan</validOperators>
        <validOperators>greaterThan</validOperators>
    </field>
</fields>

[Isomorphic]

Whoops, you're correct, thanks. We corrected the previous post as well.

[Blama]

I'd also like to see a DTD for the DataSource. In particular, I need to specify valid operators for a particular field. Can you provide/reference an example?
Also, a sample of valueMap which has a display value and data value.

Hi,

I just found this thread while searching for some information. If it is still a concern for you, you can start with my XSD from this thread and modify it to your needs.

A ValueMap with display value / data value looks like:

<field name="MAXDISTANCE" title="Max Distance" type="integer">
	<valueMap>
		<value id="" />
		<value id="10">up to 10km</value>
		<value id="20">up to 20km</value>
		<value id="50">up to 50km</value>
		<value id="100">up to 100km</value>
		<value id="200">up to 200km</value>
		<value id="500">up to 500km</value>
	</valueMap>
</field>

Best regards,
Blama