[libreoffice-users] Re: XML as mailmerge data source?

On 31-03-2012 10:49, Mark Stanton wrote:
> > and yes, Google claims to have found more than 65,000 results ;)
>
> Yes, as I said, I've been looking, and I found lots of "results", but
>
> > But bottom-line will be, convert the XML to CSV or Excel or .... ;)
>
> You seem to agree with me that, no, there isn't a way.
>
> Since XML is a wau of structuring data, just like a database is, then this 
> seems to be a glaring omission, so glaring I couldn't believe it.

XML is too complex to do this, but how do i explain that in English ;)

Every line in a CSV file can be used for 1 document wit mailmerge.

But in XML you can have one-to-many relations, which are no yet
discoverd in the world of mailmerge..



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