Is there some reason you are not just exporting three column text file

year month value

That being said, it's been a long (long) time since I worked with Access (try 
version 1.0!), but surely it has an odbc driver?



--- In [email protected], "brother.gabriel" <brgabr...@...> wrote:
>
> I was actually looking at those.  I am trying to get information out of a M$ 
> Access database so I can use it.  So far I have been exporting one of the 
> forms which I created in the database and then regexing it with NoteTab to 
> create an initial ini file that I could work with using PP.  Then I ran into 
> the problem where I need to access the data from two years at once, so it 
> messed up my ini scheme.  I don't know anything about xml, really, except 
> that one can use "categories" and "subcategories".  I have thought about 
> using an ini file for each year, which is nice, but I don't have any way to 
> specify the year automatically when I export it from Acess.  The most 
> efficient thing to do would be to simply access the database itself using PP, 
> but I don't think PP's database plugins will do that - don't they only use 
> OBDC?  Is this something I could do with the COM plugin?
> 
> --- In [email protected], "entropyreduction" 
> <alancampbelllists+yahoo@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 
> > --- In [email protected], Brother Gabriel-Marie <brgabriel@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello y'all!  Is there a powerpro plugin or script designed to write to 
> > > xml files?  I am looking for something as easy as the ini plugin.  
> > > Really, I need to create a file where I save values arranged by month, 
> > > which is in turn arranged by year.  I think an xml file would work 
> > out, no?
> > 
> > Or one ini file per year, within which one section per month
> > 
> > Or consider one of the database plugins:
> > 
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/files/Plug-ins_and_add-ons/0_Interfaces/Database_Interfaces/
> > 
> > probably sqlite.
> >
>


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