XML Import

[Kenneth Brody]

Scott Walker wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the input.  I need to get on something with this.  I was hoping
> someone had developed a generic "black box" where you could plug in the xml
> schema info and your fp file map info and have it do a lot of the heavy
> lifting.  With the fact that every xml file from a different source will
> have a different schema the only constant is my applications layout.
> Perhaps each xml source will have to be programmed by hand.  I will have to
> do some real thinking on this.  There has to be a better way than that.
[...]

I don't think there can be a "generic black box" when it comes to XML, 
unless you can impose some sort of standardization on the files you are 
going to import.  The fact that the field you are looking for may be a 
"<bar>" node within a "<foo>" node when coming from company A, and a 
"<grok>" node within a "<snarf>" from company B means that someone, 
somewhere, needs to tell filePro where things are at least once.

Perhaps you could write a single import within filePro, and use XSLT to 
massage whatever varied formats you get from the different sources into a 
"standard" XML format?

-- 
Kenneth Brody