Custom DCR Schema or Standard one?

nithinbose

Hi All,

We are trying to come up with some new data capture templates.
In our past experience, it has been quite a pain to parse the DCR XML structure that IW by default generates, so we are looking to possibly use the custom XML schema definition that TST now supports.

1. Are there any drawbacks of using the custom dtd?
2. Can I leverage FormAPI?
3. Will the UI look and feel be different since it is a custom dtd?
4. Do I have any control on the look and feel?

Thanks,
Nithin

Migrateduser

But you are still going to parse the "DCR" with a TPL, right? Are you going to generate XML with the TPL or something else? Although I agree parsing DCRs with standard XML tools is a disaster, parsing with TPL logic is relatively straightforward. If your TPL generates XML it's probably easiest to use DCR structure (I'm no expert on this). If you are generating something else (maybe using XSL in the TPL to render HTML) or deploying the DCRs themselves then I would consider the alternatives. Also if you are using DataDeploy (which I hope you're not), I'm not sure how that works with custom DCR formats.