Database + XML = MASS CONFUSION

Hi all,
I need a little insight because I've quickly driven myself bonkers... I work for an audiobook publisher and we're thinking of switching our catalogs over to InDesign from CorelDRAW (don't laugh). Basically, my biggest hold up is the fact that InDesign won't take SVGs! We use the SVGs for our book data (narrators, CD counts, ISBNs, etc.). Basically, I'm looking for an alternative way to get this data into our catalog.
Example catalog: http://www.tantor.com/Catalog/Tantor_NOVDEC_2007_Catalog.pdf
After looking at the example, you can see what I'm talking about, that little clump of info. I just need to know how to easily get database info into InDesign, or if it's possible. I'm certain other people do catalogs in InDesign, right? We use MS ACCESS for most of our database. Any help at all will be helpful.
InDesign CS3
Windows XP

Matthew,
I'm just getting into this area myself so I won't pose as an expert, but if you haven't seen this publication it might be helpful in orienting you:
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/products/indesign/scripting/pdfs/indesign_and_xml _technical_reference.pdf
I'm in the middle of placing a bunch of content from Access into ID, basically the workflow is to create a single story placeholder, properly tagging it with the "parent" element of the repeating content, and then letting InDesign duplicate or "clone" this as many times as necessary to place all your database records.

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* In Order To Handle XML Operations
package edu.yeditepe.cse.util;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
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     public final static String DOCTYPE_SYSTEM   = "database.dtd";
     public final static String ParentElement    = "variable";
     public final static String databaseName          = "databasename";
     public final static String urlName           = "urlname";
     public final static String userName           = "username";
     public final static String passWord           = "password";
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xalan-2.7.0.jar
Error on the console is :
no protocol: database.xml
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
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     at edu.yeditepe.cse.util.Deneme.main(Deneme.java:16)
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Hi all,
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</Qroduct>
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<SKU>2</SKU>
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sku INT Primary KEY,
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SELECT X.qroduct.query('SKU').value('.', 'INT'),
X.qroduct.query('Desc').value('.', 'VARCHAR(30)')
FROM (
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FROM OPENROWSET(
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SINGLE_BLOB) AS T(x)
) AS T(x)
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FROM Qroducts;
I got the following message:
Msg 9400, Level 16, State 1, Line 6
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Hi Manish, Thanks for your response.
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did not catch the new features of T-SQL 2008, XML, SQL/XML, XQuery, etc. for long time. Recently, I did not know what DECLARE, @x, SET,...were, and dived into the SQL/XML and XQuery programming. I knew the SQL Basics (SELECT, FROM, WHERE,..), creating
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Hello,
when I have a question about XML, where do I ask?
XML DB issues related to XML DB
XML space for the following subspaces
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PL/SQL XML Programming PL/SQL programming using XDK and related management issues inside Oracle database server. Any question for XML DB functionality, please post your question in Products -> Database-> XML DB.
XQuery Discussion of Oracle XQuery Technology Preview, W3C XQuery specifications, and JSR 225: XQuery API for Java (XQJ) issues
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One step forward everyone who understands the explanation for the PL/SQL XML Programming space!
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My $0.02.
As I recall, the explanation for each forum was at the entry level for each forum and not displayed within the forum itself.
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Issues parsing XML via using XMLTable (or XQuery, such as the new XQuery update added in 11.2.0.3) (Yes that can conflict)
Storage of data in XMLType columns
I to have always been a bit unclear on the exact division between groups in this XML space. I see the XQuery space as being a subset of the General XML space. I watch all three forums, as they are normally low volume and you never know where a question will pop up. As you have seen, questions often end up in the wrong forum and often General XML gets an influx of questions that should go into the Business Intelligence space as well. There is no good way right now to start a generic post and let the system suggest forums that the post could go into, based on content or software involved. That would be a nice touch for the future.

Adobe AIR 4 Not reading a XML file larger than 10MB

I have an application where the XML file could be over 10MB in size. I am using XMLHttpRequest to read the file in. However, on Air 4, it results in null when the file is greater than 10MB in size. This was working until I updated to AIR 4. I can go back to a previous version of AIR and the loading of large file works.
xml = new XMLHttpRequest( );
xml.onreadystatechange = function( ){
if( xml.readyState == 4 && xml.status == 200){
b[language] = xml.responseXML.documentElement; //Results in NULL when file size is greater than 10MB
var tempTxt = "Loaded Database";
xml.open( "GET", file.url, false);
xml.send( null );
Why AIR limited the file size and any work around for this? The Request processes fine and readyState will become 4. However, xml.responseXML.documentElement will respond with a NULL.
Thank you
Binu
www.verseview.info

It's difficult to tell what it is, it looks like a binary
pipe symbol but I can copy it from TextPad for example. Some of the
characters following it cannot be copied from TextPad which I
assume is because it's null. I can read the whole file in C#/.Net
and assign it to a string variable without any problems but perhaps
Air is somewhat limited to binary content.

Creating an Element for an XML Document

Assuming I have an XML file
file.xml
<root>
<child1>
<child2>
<child100>
<root>
i do
SAXBuilder parser = new SAXBuilder();
doc = parser.build(file);
root = doc.getRootElement();This returns a root elemnet for the entire tree.Now my question is how do i create a root element for say jus the top 10 children? That is, is there a way i can create a document just reading the first 10 elements from the file tree above so that when i do a getChildren on root I should have only 10 elements in the list.

| 1. How are the attributes of an XML element can be stored to the database
XML SQL Utility (which XSQL uses under the covers) only stores
documents in the canonical format. You'll need to use an XSLT
transformation to transform data into the canonical format
(including transforming attribute values into elements whose
names correspond to the column in which you'd like to store it)
| 2. How can I store a single XML document to multiple database tables?
I outline several techniques for this in my upcoming
O'Reilly book, "Building Oracle XML Applications".
The basic idea is to either:
(1) Use an Object View with an INSTEAD OF INSERT trigger, or
(2) Use a technique that transform the inbound document
into a multi-table insert-format and passes each
relevant part for insert to the XML SQL Utility separately.
null

XML Data Source Import on Start

I have a "time sheet" form that I've created in Livecycle Designer. It's going to interface with software that holds a database in MySQL. My understanding was that LCD doesn't play well, if at all, with MySQL. I wrote a PHP script that converts the entire MySQL database to an XML database.
So on my server I have database.xml.
I have created a data connection to database.xml in the form, so the architecture of the connection is set up. If I open the form in Acrobat Pro, I can manually import data from database.xml, but only from Pro and only if I know where the file is.
Once this is done, I have a drop down menu that these fields are populated into.
So here's the thing, can this form just have a javascript initialize event somewhere that finds the database.xml file, since it's in the same folder, import the values, and populate them where they need to be? Conceptually, it sounds like something that I should, of course, be able to do since it's just duplicating my mouse strokes in Pro, but these security issues and the fact that I want the form to work from Reader, this gets hairy.

This is a very heavy and important database that we will be using, and it doesn't sound like they're very willing to expose this database. Installing it per machine could work in theory but the idea is to have this timecard as a utility that casual employees can pull up and visit on the web, especially if they missed a day of work.
They won't have the first clue how to set up an ODBC connection on their home PC's, nor will they want to.
I do appreciate this clarification though, Paul. It may work for some other projects I'll be doing.
For this reason, unless I can get an ODBC server side, if that even conceptually would work (It's Linux), I'm still thinking I will have one of two options:
1. Find some slick java or formcalc that can pull in values from an XML database derived from the MySQL, which I have mostly ready to go except for said "slick java or formcalc".
2. Link the user to a PHP script that grabs values from the MySQL database, begins to construct the PDF on the fly, and insert the values as necessary.
Any input on this is much appreciated.

PI 7.1 XML messages are not getting archived.

Hi Experts,
Currently I am wotking with PI 7.1. I am trying to archive PI messages from PI Production server,and also maintianed the following parameters in SXMB_ADM.
ARCHIVE PERSIST_DURATION ASYNC 1 1
DELETION PERSIST_DURATION ASYNC 1 1
DELETION PERSIST_DURATION HISTORY 7 30
DELETION PERSIST_DURATION SYNC 2 0
DELETION PERSIST_DURATION_ERROR SYNC 3 1
Retention period
Retention Period for Asynchronous XML message in the Database
XML Messages Without Errors Awaiting Deletion 1
XML Messages Without Errors Awaiting Archiving 1
Retention Period for Synchronous XML message in the Database
XML Messages with Errors Awaiting Deletion 3
XML Messages Without Errors Awaiting Deletion 2
Retention Period for History Entries in the Database
History Entries for Deleted XML Messages 7
Messages are not getting archived.
When I execute the report "RSXMB_SHOW_REORG_STATUS"
I am geting the following output.
Msgs not in retention period (can be archived): 0
Msgs in retention period (cannot be archived): 88
Kindly suggest me what changes can be done so that PI messages will get archived from PI production server.
Regards
Naveen

Hi,
Please refer this thread.
[Deleting XML messages, database growing|Deleting XML messages, database growing]
Suresh

Database + XML = MASS CONFUSION

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