From: Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo@gnome-db.org)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 05:58:37 EDT
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 17:11, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Hi Rodrigo,
>
> So this all sounds great and I definitely want to add
> it.
>
> I'd also *really* like it if we could run mail-merge
> from the command line. I.e. there's some sort of XML
> file or plaintext file that we can pass to the GDA
> plugin, and it will grab the resultset and iterate
> through it. We would then pass that to the printing
> engine or file saving engine.
>
> So if you know anything or have recommendations,
> that'd be some great stuff. I wasn't sure whether GDA
> supported the XML query sytax or something or if you
> had plans in this area. I didn't want to just design
> my own (trivial) schema if you had something better in
> mind.
>
hmm, we've got, in libgda, a XML format to create .connection files
which contain all necessary information to connect to the database. We
can easily add there info for commands to be run.
We've got also the XML query format, which although not use too
extensively, it works pretty well. So, we can make a GUI to design the
query, save that query to a file and run it over from the command line.
It shouldn't be hard at all.
What would be needed in the abiword part to do this?
cheers
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