From: Daniel Kelley <news-1076422833@...>
Date: 2004-02-10T23:35:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Opinion: Ruby + OpenOffice.org

Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> writes:

> 
> But this is *not* what I am talking about here.  James' work is for 
> manipulating SXW files.  I am talking about using the OOo API (UNO) to 
> write plugins, filters and and even GUI applications based on OOo.
> 

Not only would this be useful, I'd even be willing to help! I spent
more time futzing around with the OOo java interface to write a doc to
sxw batch converter than I did with the Ruby scripts to convert sxw to
(my preferred form of) HTML, so the Ruby code was 80% of the project,
and Java the *other* 80% (grrr!!). I looked at the UNO stuff at the
time, but it gave me a serious headache; it just seemed unnecessarily
complicated to me, especially given the simple task at the time: load
..doc file, save as .sxw .

I would add batch applications to your list above, only because that's
been my primary focus of OOo automation, unless that's your definition
of 'filter'.

d.k.

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