Re: [libreoffice-users] Creating LibreOffice Calc document from XML (or some other file?)

On 11/03/2013 09:13 PM, Paul wrote:
> Hi Mario,
>
> I'm sure others on this list can advise you more completely, but I'll
> have a quick stab at it. As I understand it, the LO document format is a
> zipped file consisting of XML files for the contents. One way of
> doing what you need should be to create a file with the layout you need
> and some sample data, then save that. Then rename the file extension to
> zip if need be, and open it in an archive manager. Extract the contents
> to a working directory and examine the files. You should find one with
> the sample data in XML format. You should be able to use that as a
> template, and create a script or program to replace the sample data
> with live data and re-zip the files into a working Calc file.
>
> Hope this is what you were looking for.

I was hoping for a method so I don't need to poke with .ods files
directly :) The XML source can, I guess, be any source...


        Mario


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