From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2006-12-03T03:57:34+09:00
Subject: Re: more search and replace

Are you using OOo 2.0.4?  I know it has a TeX/BibTeX export feature now...

It's not Ruby, but it should work (unless you're using this with some
sort of automated system). :)

--Jeremy

On 12/2/06, ishamid <ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:
> [Total novice]
>
> A follow-up on my last email ("search and replace")". I am trying to
> convert an OOo xml source (content.xml) to TeX. It's a bibliography and
> thus very predictable/regular/simple etc. Each entry looks roughly like
> this (simplified):
>
> ====================================
> <text:p text:style-name="ID">[<text:sequence text:ref-name="refAutoNr3"
>
>     text:name="AutoNr" text:formula="ooow:AutoNr+1"
> style:num-format="1">4</text:sequence></text:p>
> <text:p text:style-name="Standard">Ben</text:p>
> <text:p text:style-name="reference">
>     <text:span text:style-name="T10">Article</text:span>.,
>     <text:span text:style-name="Style2">Journal</text:span>,
>      volume, issue, year.
> </text:p>
> <text:p text:style-name="reference"/>
> <text:p text:style-name="reference"/>
> ====================================
>
> I. line one is discussed in my last email. Basically, each line of this
> type (numbers are variable) needs to be converted to
>
> ====
> \head
> ====
>
> II.
> ====================================
> <text:p text:style-name="P6">Jim</text:p>
> <text:p text:style-name="P8">Michael</text:p>
> <text:p text:style-name="Standard">Ben</text:p>
> ====================================
>
> replace each with the name plus a linespace
>
> ====================================
> Jim
>
> Michael
>
> Ben
> ====================================
>
> III. <text:span text:style-name="T10">Article</text:span>
>
> If the style-name="T10", then the argument should be, e.g. {\bf
> Article}
> if the style-name="Style2", then   argument should be, e.g. {\it
> Journal}
>
> IV. So the final output should be something like
>
> ====================================
> \head Ben
>
> {\bf Article}, {\it Journal}, volume, issue, year.
>
> ====================================
>
> I hope to get enough info here to be able to finish this myself. I
> assume finishing my script would only take one of you guys 15 or 20
> minutes ;-) If I'm not able to get things working quickly (trying to
> learn Ruby and do my work at the same time) I will be happy to pay one
> of you for an hour or so of work (I'm up against a deadline).
>
> THANK YOU
> Idris
>
> PS For reference, here is the script I'm trying to modify for this OOo
> bibliography:
>
> =====================================
> class OpenOffice
>
>     # using an xml parser if overkill and we need to regexp anyway
>
>     attr_reader :display, :inline, :translate
>     attr_writer :display, :inline, :translate
>
>     def initialize
>         @data = nil
>         @file = ''
>         @display = Hash.new
>         @inline = Hash.new
>         @translate = Hash.new
>     end
>
>     def load(filename)
>         if not filename.empty? and FileTest.file?(filename) then
>             begin
>                 @data, @file = IO.read(filename), filename
>             rescue
>                 @data, @file = nil, ''
>             end
>         else
>             @data, @file = nil, ''
>         end
>     end
>
>     def save(filename='')
>         if filename.empty? then
>             filename = "clean-#{@file}"
>         end
>         if f = open(filename,'w') then
>             f.puts(@data)
>             f.close
>         end
>     end
>
>     def convert
>         @translations = Hash.new
>         @translate.each do |k,v|
>             @translations[/#{k}/] = v
>         end
>         if @data then
>             @data.gsub!(/<\?.*?\?>/) do
>                 # remove
>             end
>             @data.gsub!(/<!--.*?-->/) do
>                 # remove
>             @data.gsub!(/<!--.*?-->/) do
>                 # remove
>             end
>             @data.gsub!(/.*?<(office:text).*?>(.*?)<\/\1>.*/mois) do
>                 '\starttext' + "\n" + $2 + "\n" + '\stoptext'
>             end
>
> @data.gsub!(/<(office:font-face-decls|office:automatic-styles|text:sequence-decls).*?>.*?<\/\1>/mois)
> do
>                 # remove
>             end
>
> @data.gsub!(/<text:span.*?text:style-name=([\'\"])(.*?)\1>(.*?)<\/text:span>/)
> do
>                 tag, text = $2, $3
>                 if inline[tag] then
>                     (inline[tag][0]||'') + clean_display(text) +
> (inline[tag][1]||'')
>                 else
>                     clean_display(text)
>                 end
>             end
>             @data.gsub!(/<text:p[^>]*?\/>/) do
>                 # remove
>             end
>
> @data.gsub!(/<text:p.*?text:style-name=([\'\"])(.*?)\1>(.*?)<\/text:p>/)
> do
>                 tag, text = $2, $3
>                 if display[tag] then
>                     "\n" + (display[tag][0]||'') + clean_inline(text) +
> (display[tag][1]||'') + "\n"
>                 else
>                     "\n" + clean_inline(text) + "\n"
>                 end
>             end
>             @data.gsub!(/\t/,' ')
>             @data.gsub!(/^ +$/,'')
>             @data.gsub!(/\n\n+/moi,"\n\n")
>         end
>     end
>
>     def clean_display(str)
>         str.gsub!(/&quot;(.*?)&quot;/) do
>             '\quotation {' + $1 + '}'
>         end
>         str
>     end
>
>     def clean_inline(str)
>         @translations.each do |k,v|
>             str.gsub!(k,v)
>         end
>         str
>     end
>
> end
>
> def convert(filename)
>
>     doc = OpenOffice.new
>
>     doc.display['P1'] = ['\chapter{','}']
>     doc.display['P2'] = ['\startparagraph'+"\n","\n"+'\stopparagraph']
>     doc.display['P3'] = doc.display['P2']
>
>     doc.inline['T1'] = ['','']
>     doc.inline['T2'] = ['{\sl ','}']
>
>     doc.translate['�'] = 'XX'
>         doc.translate['&apos;'] = '`'
>
>     doc.load(filename)
>
>     doc.convert
>
>     doc.save
> end
>
> filename = ARGV[0]
>
> filename = 'content.xml' if not filename or filename.empty?
>
> convert('content.xml')
> =====================================
>
>
>