LOTUSSCRIPT: Sax Parsing for the nervous.

Here at Cheese International we are very keen on scanning applications. We need to know if they are using any code that will not work on the new server platform. This is vital, because if the applications don't work the new Wensleydale may not get to the shops for xmas.

I thought it would be a splendid idea to export the design of each application as DXL and then scan (using a SAX parser) for various offending items, like hardcoded server names and wintel specific stuff. It was all going swimmingly until someone noticed it wasn't exporting outlines. Blast!

After a quick post on notes.net it turns out only the outline headers are exported, but only in a raw format, and the outline entries don't appear at all.

So can you fully search a notes database using DXL? Nope, not yet. Close but no cigar.

Still the guys on notes net did alert me to the rather nifty DDSearch plug-in. This dosn't find outline entries either though ;-(