I understand the basics of import to FileMaker (csv, xml) and I know a little about XSLT.
I have a data set containing lists that I need to import into FileMaker. There are 3 tables for this - the main table, the datapoints table and the positions table. My data looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<result>
<data mode="test" ram="on">
33,869
34,115
46,074
225,233, E
226,122, E
235,763, E
237,408, E
237,722, E
242,503
256,271
273,741
</data>
<statistics>
<positions>
<position id="1" unit="c">0,00</position>
<position id="2" unit="c">5,05</position>
<position id="3" unit="c">14,30</position>
<position id="4" unit="c">23,47</position>
</positions>
</statistics>
</result>
how do I import this XML into FM in one go? I understand I need to convert it to fmpxmlresult, but everything I've read assumes that the XML is essentially a fancy CSV - individual rows without related/sub-rows.
And yes, the positions data is properly XML'ified, and the data data is newline-seperated and I know that's not the XML way, but it's the way I receive the data.
Is there something I can do to make this easy for my users? I can pre-process the data outside of FileMaker if absolutely necessary, but would like to avoid that if possible.
(split off from this question - Export and Import date from/into current record only in FileMaker 18 - which contained a simplified version of this question and an unrelated other question, someone remarked I should ask one question at a time)
To import the positions into a table with fields for PositionID, Unit and Value, you can use the following stylesheet:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpxmlresult">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/result">
<FMPXMLRESULT>
<METADATA>
<FIELD NAME="PositionID"/>
<FIELD NAME="Unit"/>
<FIELD NAME="Value"/>
</METADATA>
<RESULTSET>
<xsl:for-each select="statistics/positions/position">
<ROW>
<COL>
<DATA>
<xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
</DATA>
</COL>
<COL>
<DATA>
<xsl:value-of select="@unit"/>
</DATA>
</COL>
<COL>
<DATA>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</DATA>
</COL>
</ROW>
</xsl:for-each>
</RESULTSET>
</FMPXMLRESULT>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
To import the data into a table with two target fields (not sure what to call them), you can use:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpxmlresult">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/result">
<FMPXMLRESULT>
<METADATA>
<FIELD NAME="A"/>
<FIELD NAME="B"/>
</METADATA>
<RESULTSET>
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="data"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</RESULTSET>
</FMPXMLRESULT>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="tokenize">
<xsl:param name="text"/>
<xsl:param name="delimiter" select="' '"/>
<xsl:param name="sep" select="', '"/>
<xsl:variable name="token" select="normalize-space(substring-before(concat($text, $delimiter), $delimiter))" />
<xsl:if test="$token">
<ROW>
<COL>
<DATA>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(concat($token, $sep), $sep)" />
</DATA>
</COL>
<COL>
<DATA>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after($token, $sep)" />
</DATA>
</COL>
</ROW>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="contains($text, $delimiter)">
<!-- recursive call -->
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text, $delimiter)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>