Thanks, Rick. Appreciated. Most of my automated publishing projects are
XML-based. But on occasion (like this one) the client wants to go
directly from an ODBC connection.
Alas, there are still good reasons to use FrameScript!
-Alan
On 2/27/17 3:45 PM, Rick Quatro wrote:
Hi Alan,
The short answer is no, ExtendScript doesn't have any built-in ODBC
capabilities. The closest you can get is to see if your database content can
be exported to XML and then use ExtendScript to parse and import the XML to
FrameMaker. ExtendScript has a built-in XML object that is pretty good. It
has an xpath method that lets you perform XPath 1.0 queries on the XML
object.
Rick
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
r...@frameexpert.com
585-366-4017
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 3:18 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: [Framers] database access from Extendscript?
Colleagues,
I'm a bit spoiled by the FrameScript database utilities, and am trying to do
similar database publishing with Extendscript. For those on the list who
have worked with both, does Extendscript provide any database I/O
capabilities? (I believe the answer is "no"). If it does not, is there a
Javascript library that you've found to be workable?
-Alan
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Alan Houser
Group Wellesley, Inc.
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412-450-0532
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