Hello, I have been working on some simplistic programs that allow for off Palm storage of the main DBs in an XML format and for the restoration, or importation, of that, or new, info back up to the Palm via an XML parser. I'd like to get some feedback on what I've done so far, so here goes. The work builds on the pilot-link suite and other ideas I've seen from Norm Walsh's Palm DTDs http://nwalsh.com/palm/index.html James Clark's Expat XML parser http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ Vadim Zaliva's ExpenseDB in xml code A posting to this list from [EMAIL PROTECTED] So far, there are read/install pairs for the Address, Datebook, Expense, Memo and ToDo DBs. They all look very similar and all do the same thing and appear to, me to, be lossless (although some attributes are not currently saved, which probably should be were this ever to be used in anger). If anyone wants to take a look at the codes and tell me what they think (or where to stick them) then they can be found at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/~kevin/pilot-link/kmb-pl-xml.tgz There is a readme file called "Notes" inside that tells a fuller story. They are not meant to replace anything in the main pilot-link suite, indeed I hope that their functionality will be in the main suite at some point, and so they are really just my attempt to do something with, and get a better understanding of, XML and the pilot-link suite, but if anyone out there likes playing with other people's codes, any feedback would be welcome. Can I also ask a question: The Address, Expense, Memo and ToDo DBs all appear to be able to have entries in them deleted by category and there is an API call to do this, as used in the original pilot-addresses (the -d and -D flags). Deleting all entries in a DB this way leaves the category info on the Palm, in a way that deleting the whole DB with say, pilot-xfer, does not. Although the Datebook DB in normal use doesn't have categories, I've seen info that suggests the structures are there and that some non-Palm apps make use of these. I have tried using this call on the datebook DB but no entries get deleted (presumably as the Palm "recognises" that the entries have no category, not even unfiled) although no major error occurs. Is there then, a way [API call(s)] to delete entries in the Datebook DB in this "by category" way, ie without potentially removing the whole DB ? All the best Kevin -- Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Kevin M. Buckley e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * Systems Administrator * * Computer Centre * * Lancaster University Voice: +44 (0) 1524 5 93718 * * LANCASTER. LA1 4YW Fax : +44 (0) 1524 5 25113 * * England. * * * * My PC runs Linux/GNU, you still computing the Bill Gate$' way ? * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Pilot-unix mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/pilot-unix
