[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Import/export from Memo app - key is data fields, not fonts and formatting

[Eric Sinclair]

On Dec 5, 2005, at 3:04 PM, John Faughnan wrote:
> 1. Change to a plain text file format (XML, whatever) so I can work  
> with it
> using a text editor.
> 2. Adopt a well known open source database format for the notebook  
> files
> (MySQL, whatever).
> 3. Add a separate (command line?) import/export utility.
> 4. Rewrite the memo client to support import and export.
> 5. Adopt the same file format for the memos as is used for iPod Notes.

I think adaptors could be easily written for 5 if 3 or 4 supported  
option 1 (if you follow me).  This is basically the approach taken by  
Jeff of ShadowPlan, and then there are XSLT transforms available.

For number 2, SQLlite is baked into Tiger, isn't it?  I don't know  
how good the VARCHAR support is in SQLlite, but it might make the  
path a bit simpler.  Once there, 3 or 4 become more straightforward  
to accomplish by the community, provided the schema is sane and  
documented.

-Eric

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