From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2009-06-17T02:48:17+09:00
Subject: Re: converting openoffice documents to XML

Tim Hunter wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2:56 am, Anandh Kumar <anandhthiyagara...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everybody
>>
>>       I've to parse the open office documents and upload it to the
>> database in ruby on rails and in linux platform. I've not found any gem
>> to accomplish that. Now i got a idea of converting the open office
>> documents to XML format and then to parse the XML content to finish up
>> with my task.
>>
>>        Is it possible?
> 
> An OpenOffice document is a package of XML files zipped into a single
> file. Change the .odt extension to .zip, unzip it, and you'll see.
> 


Once upon a time I wrote a lib to manipulate OOo docs.

I ended up not using it as much as I expected, and eventually abandoned it.

The OOo doc format has since changed, so it's largely useless, but may 
offer some ideas on how to manipulate OOo docs in general.'

http://ooo4r.rubyforge.org/

I also wrote about my OOo + Ruby experience for Linux Journal

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7236




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