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Re: Extracting text from database to format in Framemaker MIF file
Subject:Re: Extracting text from database to format in Framemaker MIF file From:Chris <cud -at- telecable -dot- es> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:40:19 +0100
Ken...
You should try over at the FrameUsers list - subscribe via frameusers.com.
If your source data doesn't include tables, you should also check out
MML. That's like a much-simplified version of MIF. Also, keep in mind
that you don't have to create the entire MIF document - just the MIF to
import into a flow in your template.
I have an ongoing contract with a company that generates many Meg of
MIF, and I import that into their template and do the production work -
it's not a bad system. However, they invested a decent amount of time
in the script that massages their data into MIF. They went so far as to
convert raw data into circuit diagrams drawn in MIF! It's plenty of
work. If you could get away with MML, I suggest it.
Another approach may be to convert the data into XML - your Oracle
implementation might already include the utility to do that. Then you
can just open the XML in structured Maker, and masage the resulting EDD
to get your formatting by element. Or you can create a full-blown
structure application app before you bring in the XML. I personally
think that would be easier than MIF, but that's just an opinion (they're
cheap).
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