Re: Finding references

FileMaker put together a 73 pg document "fmpa8_ddr_xml_grammar.pdf"
that explains there XML output so these guys aren't being lazy on the
job; it just doesn't seem right that every developer should have to
write an XSLT document to translate the XML back into a format that can
be imported into a FM database.

I guess my complaint is this, they give us the data in XML format but
ask any developer and they'll tell you that they need this data in a FM
file to check their work.

FM 5 or 5.5 had a DDR that would output to a FileMaker file, this was
good except you still couldn't search the file because of the way they
displayed related data. eg. find me any field that uses field "ABC" in
its calculation

I would love to see 1 file which has 1 table per type of item eg.
script, script step, field, layout, file reference...
And 1 cross table that has 1 record for every combination of 2 items
eg.
field "ABC" is a calc that references field "DEF" and "GHI"; this would
create 2 records in the cross table.

Ideally this file would be setup in the simplest way possible so that
any idiot, within reason, could pull whatever data they needed out of
it and relink it to suit there needs. The DDR file that FM 5 or 5.5
created was too complicated.

The guys that put together FM8 have to be intelligent, now take that
intelligence and use it to create a DDR file that a dumb user like me
can use without being confused but still gives ALL information. I
don't care if you break every rule of database normalization to do it
or if the file is 10 times bigger than it needs to be. I don't even
need it to look pretty. I'm interested in the data, nothing else!

Having reread this, I think I should have addressed this as a "Dear
Santa" wish list.

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