[oXygen-user] import old Notebook database to XML?

[Sorin Ristache]

Hello Ken,

You can find an example stylesheet on the <oXygen/> forum:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/ftopic977.html


Best regards,
Sorin


Ken Beesley wrote:
> Hello Sorin,
> 
> Thanks for your response. The second solution (have Notebook
> dump its data as text) appears to be the more promising solution
> right now. But even running the old DOS Notebook executable
> is causing me a few problems, though I expect to resolve them
> shortly.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> Sorin Ristache wrote:
> 
>> Hello Ken,
>>
>> For such an old database probably it is too much to ask for a JDBC 
>> driver. But if you can find an ODBC driver the conversion is very 
>> easy: the ODBC driver connects to the JDBC-ODBC bridge which can be 
>> set in <oXygen/> as the driver that fetches the data for the database 
>> import operation (menu File -> Import -> Database data).
>>
>> If the Notebook database is able to export data as plain text another 
>> way of conversion is to export the data as text and develop a custom 
>> XSLT 2.0 stylesheet for the conversion to XML.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sorin
>>
>>
>> Ken Beesley wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Beginner Question
>>>
>>> I have a large database in an old DOS text-database
>>> management format called Notebook (from Pro/Tem Software).
>>>
>>> I'd like to convert that old database into XML.
>>> Has anyone already done this with oXygen?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>>>
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