filepro & XML

[Enrique Arredondo]

Thanks,

HAve you heard about MAPFORCE ?
http://www.altova.com/features_database_mapforce.html

I read that this will do the mapping to and from XML to any database and
then when everything works out then you can make mapforce to create C++ code
to do the mapping. Does that mean that If I get the C++ code, I can C++ it
on sco unix and with that executable script interface it with filepro and
voila! ?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard D. Williams" <richard at appgrp.net>
To: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: filepro & XML


> Enrique,
>
> I have not worked with XML yet, but I did attend Nancy's presentation in
> Orlando.
> If I was working on an XML project I think I would create a translation
> file in filepro;
> fpXML
> 1    tag name                    30        *
> 2    filepro filename          15         *
> 3    field_no (in this file)    3         .0
> 4    section no.                  3        .0
> 5      order no.                    3       .0
>
> Then I could write code in this file to go out to my other filepro files
> and get this data and export it as an XML file.
>
> You could sort by section no. and order no. to create detail xml section
> within the xml file.
> If you need to add new data, or re-order it, it would be easy just to
> change your section no. or order no. value in those record.
>
> You could even add another field called xml_filename and use it to
> export different XML files.
>
> I as said this is just a thought.  I haven't actually done it.
>
> Good luck
>
> Richard D. Williams
> Enrique Arredondo wrote:
>
> > What's the easiest way of creating an XML file from filepro ? Right
> > now I'm using a full page report with 1000 lines so I can create each
> > tag that I need to, but I'm half way and this is overkill, assuming
> > that everytime they add more tags I'll be redoing this!.
> >
> > So I was thinking of creating filepro files where the field names are
> > the actual names of the XML tags and when printing the output use
> > "<{@fieldname{>"*1"</{@fieldname{">"
> >
> > What do you think ?
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