[Gambas-devel] OpenOfice integration

[David Villalobos Cambronero]

Is that code open source, I mean the code you develop for your job?

Do you think is a good idea to make a component to deal with the the ODF?

Regards

David

----- Original Message ----
From: Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:49:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Gambas-devel] OpenOfice integration

On mercredi 23 avril 2008, David Villalobos Cambronero wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Benoit, What is your idea for OpenOffice document generation, I mean, how
> do you think a document should be generated, I'm planning to try to learn
> the OASIS Standard, to try to do something for Gambas.
>
> Any idea to begin?
>
> Best regards
>
> David
>

"Open Office integration" is not really needed. 

ODF files are just XML text files that you can process with standard text 
routines.

For example, to generate Open Office text or spreadsheet documents, I do the 
following:

First, I create a template file. Put in it some special markups where I want 
to insert the data.

Then, each time I want to make a document, I do that:

- Unzip the template file.
- Replace the markups by the data in the content.xml file.
- Zip the result.
- That's done.

But we can imagine making a component that deals with that process. 

The code already exists: it is located in the web platform I developed for my 
job. 

This web platform can generate OpenOffice text files, spreadsheet, convert 
them to MS Word/Excel, and make PDF from that. It needs a virtual X11 server 
(Xvfb) when OpenOffice must be run to do the conversions.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini

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