Hello Lotus guru\s,
I’m using Domino 6.5 with C++ toolkit API library 2.4. And i want to convert rich text field to my own data structre/ plain file.
I tried a lot, but stuck to convert composite data.
can anybody help me to give a direction toward this?
thanks
Prashant
Subject: why composite data is so complex
For most purposes it is easiest to use DXL for this. You can use the C API to export Rich Text in this XML data format, and take it from there.
Subject: why composite data is so complex
It is very complex because it does a lot. You have a couple of ways to make it easier.
You can extract it as DXL, in which case you still have a lot of complexity, but it is more easily parsable and usable. Of course, it is still complex, but “accessibly complex” as a friend put it. Basically, it is easy to extract DXL, it is free, it is part of the core product, but it only reduces the complexity a certain amount.
Depending on what format you want to take it to, our Midas Rich Text LSX might help, but it is a third party product. If that is not an obstacle, we make working with rich text a whole lot easier, and have extensive tools for extracting the content and turning them into “other stuff”, such as HTML. Basically, it is easy to use Midas, it it not free but not terribly expensive, it is not part of the core product, but it reduces the complexity by a very large extent, and may do the job entirely depending on what you want to do.