Beyond The Yellow Bubble

I started work on extending the functionality of the .Domino Framework to provide the ability to "skin" an application for a Notes client based upon a style sheet.  The first challenge has been to develop an approach to take.  I had previously developed a solution for views that used the NotesDOMPaser.  Viewnify also uses this approach.  The downside to this is the lack of a standard way to define the "style".  Importing from a CSS was a possible options but what names should be applied to the classes/ids...

I decided to try XSLT.  It is an industry standard and the transformations could be defined as data rather than code.  Notes provides a way to transform DXL using an NotesXSLTTransformer class.  Using the Domino.reflections namespace I have extended the existing DominoDocummentCollectionDesign class to provide a Transform method.  This new method acts upon the selected design elements, exports them to DXL, applies an XSLT before importing the modified design elements back into teh database.  I also developed a debug option that exports the DXL to a file so it can be inspected.