[Gambas-user] 2 Questions

[johnf]

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 14:42, Rob Kudla wrote:
> On Tue December 6 2005 14:48, johnf wrote:
> > I was not aware that OOo documents are XML files?  I thought
> > it was something to do with "odt".  I have been checking and I
>
> Actually, .odt and .sxw files (and all the other
> Staroffice/Openoffice file formats starting with Openoffice
> 1.0/Staroffice 6) are just JAR (Java archive) files even though
> they don't have any Java in them. In turn, JAR files are just
> ZIP files with a particular directory layout. So if you go like
> this:
>
> unzip -l mydocument.odt
>
> you get something like this:
>
>   Length     Date   Time    Name
>  --------    ----   ----    ----
>        39  11-09-05 06:37   mimetype
>         0  11-09-05 06:37   Configurations2/
>         0  11-09-05 06:37   Pictures/
>       130  11-09-05 06:37   layout-cache
>     20926  11-09-05 06:37   content.xml
>     16383  11-09-05 06:37   styles.xml
>      1120  11-09-05 06:37   meta.xml
>     15555  11-09-05 06:37   Thumbnails/thumbnail.png
>      7090  11-09-05 06:37   settings.xml
>      1173  11-09-05 06:37   META-INF/manifest.xml
>  --------                   -------
>     62416                   10 files
>
> The XML file "content.xml" contains the marked up text of your
> document; "styles.xml" contains all the formatting information,
> even for the formatting you do without explicitly applying a
> style.  There are DTD's out there for all 5 of the XML files, of
> course.
>
> I myself have done a lot of work with Openoffice documents in
> Perl, though since discovering the OODoc module I stopped
> getting into the nitty gritty of the XML files.
>
> > believe the OOo guys are trying to setup a universal way of
> > accessing and creating OOo documents.  There is a SDK and a
> > binary "URE"  (UNO Runtime) (UNO = universal network object?)
> > that the OOo doc suggest will be the way to automate OOo.  But
> > at the moment it is a little over my head with regard to
> > GAMBAS.  It only has Java and C++ examples.  Also it looks
> > like it's some sort of client/server environment. Not what I
> > was expecting.....
>
> Writing an UNO component for Gambas is way, way out of my league,
> but if all you want to do is read and write OOo documents, the
> tools are already available even without a "gb.xml.ooo"
> component having been written.
>
> Rob
Not sure what you mean by DTD's.  
John