[Framers] database access from Extendscript?

[Scott Prentice]

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.
>> rick at frameexpert.com
>> 585-366-4017
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Framers
>> [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com] On 
>> Behalf
>> Of Alan Houser
>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 3:18 PM
>> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan Houser
>> Group Wellesley, Inc.
>> Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter
>> 412-450-0532
>>
>
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