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eb_011-Visitor
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February 6, 2020
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relationship between database and arbortext

  • February 6, 2020
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ıs there anybody to help me here?
ı wanna get data from Access database and mirror it to Arbortext editor or styler, so if ı change my data, ı want, my document also is changed.
Is it possible? Or should ı use excel or sql or xml ? Could you help me about which way ı should follow?

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GarethOakes16-Pearl
16-Pearl
February 6, 2020

The simplest method would be to implement some Java code from within Arbortext Editor. It has a full JRE running. You could use JDBC libraries to query your database for the data and update upon save. Arbortext is an XML application so you would convert your database records into some XML format, and back again to database records on the way out - unless you plan to store your Arbortext data as XML blobs in the database.

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RayStachowiak1-Visitor
1-Visitor
February 6, 2020

Gareth answer sound about right. We use PTC's Windchill to store our XML and DITA data. One concern, even PTC which has its own dedicated interface does not mirror data. It checks out the data from CMS into Arbortext where the system validates the data. then upon completion you check back in the data to the database. Most system work this way since Arbortext needs the complete set of module/module you are working on to do the validation and link resolution if possible. If anyone has different information please respond I would be interested.

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