Hi Kim--
I don't know a way to change the name of the .exp file that a FOSI creates (though there may well be a way to do it--I am far from a FOSI expert). But I know for sure that this is pretty easy to do with ACL.
For example, if you wanted to write out a list of all the chapters in a document, with the title and ID attribute, in comma-separated format to read into Excel, you could use a function like this:
# params: doc is XML source document ID, filename is file to write data to
# assumes markup consists of chapters marked up like this:
# <chapter id="ch01"><title>First Chapter</title>.....</chapter>
# NB: Untested code; debugging is left as an exercise
function save_chapter_info(doc, filename) {
# open the file; for production code, you'd want to add some error handling
local f = open(filename, "w");
# collect the things we want to report on
local chapters[], c, title, id;
oid_find_children(oid_root(doc),chapters,"chapter");
for (c in chapters) {
title = oid_xpath_string(chapters[c],"title[1]");
id = oid_attr(chapters[c],"id");
# write the string to the data file
put(f, c . '," . title . ",' . id . "\n");
}
# done, close the file
close(f);
}
Hopefully you can generalize this pretty easily to the exact data you need to extract from your documents.
--Clay
