FMPython? Anyone? Buehler?

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3 total messages Started by Michael_Hare Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:02

#22

Author: Michael_Hare
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:02

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It seems like everything I try hits a dead end.. ever have one of those days (weeks (years))?

Anyway, I'm still on 7.2 until the company decides to upgrade.

I have two FM books that I save to XML. I don't author the content of the books, I created the two EDDs and the StructuredApp so they can be saved to XML. I also write the XSLT scripts to do the work on the files.
So, I run an XSLT script against the saved XML that takes information from both books and builds a third set of XML files. I bring these into a third book and wah-la, I have reached my destination.

Except, nobody likes the workflow, there's 'too many steps' and 'I have to understand Structured Framemaker', so I end up doing it for them. What I wanted to do was to move it all to unix and use fmbatch to do the saving as XML and reading generated XML back into FM format.

Except, it seems fmbatch hasn't been updated in a while and doesn't understand XML. I'm now looking at the unsupported FMPython to do the same thing on a PC. It appears to understand XML well enough to do what I need. I've got Python 2.2 loaded and I can run some really simple example scripts.

Except, the documentation is weak and google isn't coming through on providing me with any really interesting examples to work from.

So, I turn to you, members of this forum. Does anyone have any ideas on opening XML and saving as FM?

Help me Obe Wan Kenobe, you're my last hope.

Thanks,
- m

Re: FMPython? Anyone? Buehler?

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Author: Rick_Quatro
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:19

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Hi Michael,

Why not use FrameScript? It has decent documentation, it has a Yahoo group where you can get help, and it is only $150. And it has full access to the structured Frame object model, as well as other goodies such as database and file system access. It is still in active development and supported by the developer. You can also use its EActiveXObject object to use Microsoft MSXML, their free XML parser.

Rick Quatro
rick at frameexpert dot com
585-659-8267

Re: FMPython? Anyone? Buehler?

#25

Author: Michael_Hare
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:13

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I'm looking at FrameScript now. I've got their eval loaded.
It looks pretty good.

Thanks,

- m

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