Is there any way to database drive the mtx files? From looking at the mtx files only the basename and imagesize changes. If this data could be added via a database and server generated then you might not need all the mtx files?

My application searches a photodatabase and then displays the zoomview image. If I could put the info in like I do via ASP then I would not need to manage all the mtx files.

Hi Paul,

By all means, yes, you can generate mtx (XML) from a database. You might want to start looking into XSLT.

HTH,
Daimen

http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/

Basically, I have sites that run many (1000s) of zoomview images from a database. I use SQL and ASP to generate the link between the data content and the zoomview e.g.,

<script language="javascript">
vmp = new MTSPlugin("zoomview/<%=Recordset1.Fields("ARimage").value%>.mtx",<%=Recordset1.Fields("ARwidth").value%>,<%=Recordset1.Fields("ARheight").value%>,"/nsarm/scripts/BroadcastKey.mtx","<img src='images/<%=Recordset1.Fields("ARimage").value%>.jpg' border=0>","contenttype=2;imagelink=1;popup=1;ComponentMinimumVersion=50333440;GenieMinimumVersion=50333440;HostMinimumVersion=50333440;RequiredVersions=SreeD.dll=3.0.7.46,SreeDMMX.dll=3.0.7.46");
</script>

So the database links the number.mtx. What I want to be able to do is reduce the number of mtx pages. I want to have an mtx page similar to my asp page and plug data variables into it. I have NO IDEA how to do this and would appreciate an example. Thanks - PGM

see:

http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/africanns/pageBN.asp?ID=1

You can search 3000 names and link to that name on the digitized page of a 1783 ledger.