The X-Tract PalmPilot applications allow you to import your PalmPilot Desktop address book into an XML format and write scripts in XML Script to manipulate the data from the address book. Several such scripts are included in this distribution as examples of what you can do with XML Script. They are designed to be run either from the command line via batch files, or from behind a web server.

These instructions assume that you have already installed X-Tract, either separately from the PalmPilot applications or as part of the combined download package. We suggest that the PalmPilot applications be copied to a directory called X-Tract\pilot, if they are not already there.

These applications use a program called loadbook.exe, which reads addresses from the PalmPilot address database file and returns them, as XML, to the console. We have included a sample address database ('sample.dat') to demonstrate how it works. To display the contents of the sample database as XML, type at the command line:

loadbook sample.dat