Request: UIEE export

[Robby Stephenson]

Hi Joshua,

On Friday 17 October 2008, Joshua McGee wrote:
> I could write and test such an exporter in about an hour if Tellico were
> written in Perl, but I don't speak python (that's what it's written in,
> right?)

Tellico is written in c++, but for importing data, it can run external 
scripts. So there are several python scripts included with it. I'm not sure 
if there are any perl scripts, but I've put up a few shell scripts on 
kde-files.org.

In any event, the scripts are just for import, not for export, so that 
doesn't help you. The only real custom export method is to write an XSLT 
stylesheet to transform the internal XML.

Is UIEE format just text? If you sent me an example, I could probably work 
up a sample xsl file to get you started, and definitely answer any 
questions you run into.

> The ability to ftp changed entries to a server
> and delete or archive entries based on a downloaded file of purchased
> books (in the same UIEE format) would be stellar.

Tell can upload directly through the magic of KDE's kio-slaves. Basically, 
if you put ftp://user:password@example.com/path/file in the save-as dialog. 
You can open directly, too. But that would be the whole file, not just the 
recently changed entries.

> The ability to scrape 
> one or more used book aggregators to find a range of asking prices for
> that ISBN and populate one's "Asking Price" field with the low, high,
> median, or mean values from that scrape would be, er, more than stellar
> (galactic?)

That would just be another importer, and you could update books with it. I 
know Amazon does make available current prices. I don't think any of the 
other sources do.

Robby