Replacing linked image

Hi everybody,
well, after having had to dive into InDesign CS2 plugin development a while ago, there's on most likely rather complicated thing that I haven't yet been able to solve myself. Probably someone here has a tip for me.
So, basically, my plugin opens old QuarkXpress documents in InDesign. These QuarkXpress documents include linked graphic files. Unfortunately, the paths that these graphics link to are no longer valid, and InDesign shows these links as "invalid" in its link panel.
Fortunately, however, if I get such an old link path, I can look into my Oracle tables and determine the new path these links should point to. All this Oracle database access handling is no problem, it's a vital part of my plugin and has been working fine for quite a while. Now, the link "update" thing is the problem. What I would like to do is something like that:
1) Upon opening a document, loop through all invalidly linked graphics.
2) For each invalid graphic, get the link path, give it to one of my Oracle functions, and get a new, valid path back.
3) Update the link in the document to the new, valid path.
Any idea how I'd go about this? The SDK docs - at least until now - couldn't really make this clear to me.
Greetings and thanks in advance,
Nils

Try searching the forums for missing links, IDataLink and ILinksManager I think you should get some clues there.
Ian

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