Ruby module for editing open office files

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I'm having trouble finding a module to edit open office files. I know
they are stored as xml inside a zip file, but I don't want to have to
roll my own solution unless necessary. There is oo4r but that hasn't
been updated in over 2 years and there is no documentation. Is there a
more recent and or documented module that will let me edit open office
documents?

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Have you tried win32ole? If you have a decent OLE object browser you
should be able to find what you need.

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On 4/5/06, charlie bowman <cbowmanschool@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm having trouble finding a module to edit open office files. I know
they are stored as xml inside a zip file, but I don't want to have to
roll my own solution unless necessary. There is oo4r but that hasn't
been updated in over 2 years and there is no documentation. Is there a
more recent and or documented module that will let me edit open office
documents?

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charlie bowman wrote:

I'm having trouble finding a module to edit open office files. I know
they are stored as xml inside a zip file, but I don't want to have to
roll my own solution unless necessary. There is oo4r but that hasn't
been updated in over 2 years and there is no documentation. Is there a
more recent and or documented module that will let me edit open office
documents?

This program is to convert odf (open document format) to xhtml. It might
be a good starting point for what you want to do.
http://books.evc-cit.info/odf_utils/ruby_to_xhtml.html

And this project
http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/
is able to output to odf.

Edwin

P.S. OpenOffice 2 and later uses odf as its default file format.

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I think Charlie means OpenOffice.org documents. How would win32ole do that?

I'm also interested in this. I may have a project or two coming up in
the near future that will require me to do some automation with
various OO.o documents, and I'd love to do the work in Ruby.

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  -- AL --

On 4/5/06, Keith Sader <ksader@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you tried win32ole? If you have a decent OLE object browser you
should be able to find what you need.

On 4/5/06, charlie bowman <cbowmanschool@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble finding a module to edit open office files. I know
> they are stored as xml inside a zip file, but I don't want to have to
> roll my own solution unless necessary. There is oo4r but that hasn't
> been updated in over 2 years and there is no documentation. Is there a
> more recent and or documented module that will let me edit open office
> documents?
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.
>
>

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Keith Sader
ksader@gmail.com
http://www.saderfamily.org/roller/page/ksader

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Yes, I mean OpenOffice.org documents. I know that oo4r is a possiblilty
but since I can't find a tutorial on using it, it will be pretty hard to
get it working. I know the author frequents this list. Maybe he can
shed some light on the status of oo4r and it's compatibility with
OpenOffice 2.0.

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On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 00:34 +0900, Al Gordon wrote:

I think Charlie means OpenOffice.org documents. How would win32ole do that?

I'm also interested in this. I may have a project or two coming up in
the near future that will require me to do some automation with
various OO.o documents, and I'd love to do the work in Ruby.

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  -- AL --

On 4/5/06, Keith Sader <ksader@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried win32ole? If you have a decent OLE object browser you
> should be able to find what you need.
>
> On 4/5/06, charlie bowman <cbowmanschool@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'm having trouble finding a module to edit open office files. I know
> > they are stored as xml inside a zip file, but I don't want to have to
> > roll my own solution unless necessary. There is oo4r but that hasn't
> > been updated in over 2 years and there is no documentation. Is there a
> > more recent and or documented module that will let me edit open office
> > documents?
> >
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Keith Sader
> ksader@gmail.com
> http://www.saderfamily.org/roller/page/ksader
>
>