Sonny Software

In the bad old days before bookend, I studied for some big graduate school qualifying exams using Filemaker Pro. I made a field for author, title, year, a summary of the book/article, and one of those multiple checkbox fields for the various topics covered in the work.

Now, of course, I would like to export these several hundreds refs into something Bookend can read. Filemaker can export in XML, CSV, Tab-separated text, DBF, an HTML table, lots of options.

The exporting is the easy part, but I'm wondering if anyone's had experience configuring an import filter for something like this. If so, am I best off with XML or should I stick the simpler text files?

Many thanks.

XML won't work unless you can coerce it (with XSLT) to the EndNote DTD. The ASCII options aren't great but you can, with some care, probably create an import filter that would read from one tab to the next and parse the references (see Source parser in the import filter). It is tedious to debug, but it can be done.

Jon
Sonny Software