I stumbled over this...

[Søren Dyhr]

On page 648 of the "Filemaker Pro 7 Bible" does it say:

Opening an XML Data Source to Create a New Filemaker Pro Database"

Well is that really it, isn't it just a new table in a new base without the relations defined or any scripting whatso ever???

--sd

[beverly]

Yes, this has been the case since there was an IMPORT as XML. You can OPEN an XML source (from the FileMaker menu). It will _create_ a database (table) but you just get the fields. Since this needs the FMPXMLRESULT, you will get fields defined as number, text, etc. but will not get calculations, globals.

It's a flat file becoming a flat file, so no relationships, either....

[beverly]

I should say...

In my book, Chapter 8 "XSLT Examples for FileMaker Pro XML" starts right out with "8.1 Creating Databases from XML Sources"! It works in FMP 6 and FMP 7.

:o

[Søren Dyhr]

It's a flat file becoming a flat file, so no relationships, either....

Thansk a lot for the reply, what I have hoped for was that you could diff on the DDR from day to day ...in order to remake an earlier version of the process.

There's apparently no way around, getting ones boots filled with wierd unix gadgets to make a concurrent versioning tool, such as:

http://subversion.tigris.org/

...even if it's only a two developers team trying to make track of their improvements to their masterpiece!

--sd

[beverly]

Ah! you're trying to *add* fields to an existing table. And, of course, open doesn't do this...

Wouldn't that be sweet?!