[Gambas-user] Output to Libre Office Writer ??

[rocko]

Unzip the .ods file???
Ok you lost me.

On 03/31/2013 02:53 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 31/03/2013 23:44, rocko a écrit :
>> I don't know much about the capabilities of Gambas writing to Libre Office,
>> as I don't think I ever heard of it being done before.
>>
>> I would like to read the names and addresses from an SQLite data base
>> and put them into a Libre Office Writer template(.ods).
>> Is this possible?
>>
>>
>>
>> Using Gambas 3 on Linux Mint 14.
>>
> I do that for my job.
>
> I first creat a Write document (ods) where I put a special text
> everywhere I want to replace something. For example: $(name),
> $(address), $(town)...
>
> Than I unzip the *.ods file, and modify the 'contents.xml' file by
> replacing the special text by their associated value.
>
> Beware that 'contents.xml' is XML, and so some characters have to be
> quoted: & < > '
>
> Once done, I zip the document back to an ods file. "Et voilà !".
>