Hmm. You can connect to ODBC through the FDK .. could probably expose
that to an ExtendScript call. Of course, if you're going to do part of
it in FDK, you might as well do all of it there.
I wonder if it's possible to make Ajax calls from ExtendScript ..
probably not. But if that was possible, you could use that to pull your
data from the "cloud" (if your data was there).
Probably not terribly useful thoughts ..
...scott
On 2/27/17 1:19 PM, Alan Houser wrote:
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.
[email protected]
585-366-4017
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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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Group Wellesley, Inc.
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