I've been making some progress... if I can get a little help on this part I think I can get it working. I've been reading this page:
http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2007/11/06/simple-dojo-grids/

I was able to build a working example of the grid on this page in Domino: http://blog.sitepen.com/examples/dojo_grid_1/grid_basic.html

...but it only works if I use their data.js and key in the subrow data they list in the example. If I try to replace data and subrow with data from domino... I get a blank square, and the browser status bar reveals this error when clicked:

Line:21
Char:16290
Error:'this.data.0.length' is null or not an object
Code:0

...if I remove the line:

... the page runs error-free (all other javascript on the page is running with no errors).

To get the data from Domino,
I've built a function that calls an xsl that converts the XML from the ?ReadViewEntries output into this (in an attempt to duplicate the table format used in the data.js example file):

[ [ "field1data", "field2data", "field3data", "field4data", "field5data"], [ "field1data", "field2data", "field3data", "field4data", "field5data"], [ "field1data", "field2data", "field3data", "field4data", "field5data"], [ "field1data", "field2data", "field3data", "field4data", "field5data"], [ "field1data", "field2data", "field3data", "field4data", "field5data"] ]

...I store the function's output like so:

var data = getViewData();

...I then call a function that uses a 2nd xsl that converts the XML from the ?ReadDesign output into this:

[ { name: 'data1' } , { name: 'data2' } , { name: 'data3' } , { name: 'data4' } , { name: 'data5' } ]

...and I store the function's output like so:

var subrow = getColumns();

...the intent being for the column names to dynamically change depending on what Domino view is selected (I need to avoid hard-coding the column names).

I then have the following code included in the jsheader:

var model = new dojox.grid.data.Table(null, data);

		var view = {
			rows: [ subrow ]
		};

		var structure = [
			view
		];

...and then I have this in the HTML of the page (attempt 145... yes, I'm keeping count), just like the example (and I'm using the same css too):

Domino View
	

		

			

		
	

... but the grid shows up as a blank square and the error I gave above.

If I insert a document.write(data) and a document.wrote(subrow) to output the data from my two xsl transformation functions to the browser, I get the data I copy-pasted above (the data is directly copy-pasted from my browser).

If I replace the content of data and subrow with the data.js and the hardcoded entry from the source of http://blog.sitepen.com/examples/dojo_grid_1/grid_basic.html, the grid works with no other changes to the page.

So my question is... what needs to change in how or what I'm storing in data and/or subrow in order to get the grid to run?

HA! I figured it out. :)

My var statement was assigning the output of the xsl functions as a single string instead of evaluating it as a list of objects... dojo was expecting a table of objects. I wrapped an eval() around the function's output so it would evaluate it as a list of objects instead of a string, and BAM... it started working. BANZAI! I'll post the code after I get it cleaned up.

I'm running into a snag: ?ReadViewEntries does want to return more than 1000 records at once. I'll have to do some Domino research to figure out how to get it to allow more data (I'm trying to get it to return 3000 rows).