[Framers] database access from Extendscript?

[Alan Houser]

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.
> rick at frameexpert.com
> 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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