Thursday, July 24, 2008

DXL Inconsistency For Views

I'm using DXL to pick through properties in the views of a database that I'm doing some maintenance on. At the moment, I'm verifying font settings for Columns/Column Headers.

Two problems I've encountered:
  1. Similar the HTML tags that the Domino HTTP engine generates, if you use the default fonts (Default Serif, Default Sans Serif, etc.) you won't see a node in the DXL.
  2. If you use a font other than the default font, you will get a node along with a "name" attribute, but will only get a "size" attribute if use a size other than the default size, 10.
I know that the HTTP spitting out tags has been a pain in the neck for many developers, but wouldn't you want to have the DXL show all the properties regardless of whether or not the property is a default?

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