I use FM6 and CDML for my publishing. I am thinking on moving to FM7 or FM8, but I understand that CDML is not supported.

I use CDML to make quite a few text files: files not to be seen by a web browser. Is there a way in FM7/8 to create text files when there is a web request?

I understand that XML sends 2 files, but most of my clients are not using a web browser, let alone something that can actually handle XML.

(For examples, I send a tab separated file to Excel) Can I just send HTML with FM Data? Or is the only customizing option for web pages with XML?

Thanks

(Regardless of what it says to the left, I am not using MAC OS9, I am using XP. I changed the popdown field, but OS9 still shows up)

When you make a web request to FMSA 7/8 you get XML back. You would use a stylesheet (XSLT) to transform that XML to pure text, or XLS or HTML or any other format you want.

Who or what turns the XML and XSTL into a text file? Does Filemaker do this?

The requesting software doesn't know XML nor XSTL.

Thanks