using webpages

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Hi.

I am using access to build an application that stores a number of
webpages and then has tables that refer to different parts of the
webpages.

The problem I have is that the only way I know of importing a webpage
is as a Data Access Page. This seems to work OK but then I need to know
how to refer to objects on the DAP. Any help in doing this or
alternative methods would be much appreciated.

TIA!!

 

[Larry Linson]

I am using access to build an application that
stores a number of webpages and then has
tables that refer to different parts of the
webpages.

The problem I have is that the only way
I know of importing a webpage is as a
Data Access Page. This seems to work
OK but then I need to know how to refer
to objects on the DAP. Any help in doing
this or alternative methods would be
much appreciated.

Before investing time and energy in DAPs, you should read what a Product
Manager for the next version of Access has to say, at:

http://www.utteraccess.com/forums/s...e=&olderval=&oldertype=#Post1057772&bodyprev=

Both HTML files and XML files are simply text files, which can be
read/written with Access' File I/O (which has been around as long as Access
Basic). You can use the same approach shown for "the BLOB method" of
handling images in Access to read all or part of the web page file, then use
the APPENDCHUNK to add it to either an OLE Object or a Memo field. That will
take care of storing the information, which although you used binary I/O
will still be the same text characters.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP


Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP