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Hi there,

This is just to inform you that I've started working on the wiki page for my work-in-progress XML source feature.

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Calc/XMLSource

I believe briefly mentioned about this feature in Berlin in Mirek and Astron's presence, though I didn't discuss the details of the feature as I was too busy with my drinks and other random chit-chat. ;-)

In Prague, I sat down with Mirek and went over more details of what I'd like to accomplish (the picture) and what I've done so far. But there were some roadblocks that prevented us from deciding on specifics. So the plan was for me to post here to start a discussion, which is the reason for starting this thread.

Long story short, in 4.0, I plan to integrate a small subset of this feature just in order to integrate this piece for early preview. The wiki page above only covers the part that I plan to integrate for 4.0. In 4.0, it will only allow import, not export. And also it will only import data without saving any information about the data source. This means that, once the data is imported and the dialog closed, you'll lose the info about the data source. The future revision will rectify that.

Anyway, what I'm looking for at the moment is two things:

1) I need 3 new icons for the tree control: one for XML attributes items, one for single, non-recurring XML elements, and one for recurring XML elements. If possible, I'd like to have the new icons before the 4.0 feature freeze which is early December (?).

2) Feedback on the part that goes into 4.0. But note that since 4.0 will have only a limited set of the whole feature, I'd like us to focus on reasonable changes that can be implemented within a few week time frame before the 4.0 feature freeze. Once 4.0 passes, we can have more extensive discussion on what we need to do to extend it post 4.0.

I appreciate your attention.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Oh by the way, the feature itself is on-going in the feature/calc-xml-source branch. The backed part of the import code is being implemented in the orcus project[1].

Kohei

[1] https://gitorious.org/orcus

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Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc

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