RE: Writing ods files?

Good idea, thanks.

BTW, I'm a contractor. The full time people here seemed to
be crushed under the weight of inertia, and seem to feel
it's futile to consider switching formats, because too many
departments would have to do it at once.

But I figure if I can slip in an 'export to ods' feature
into one application, it's one tiny step in the right
direction.

cheers,
md
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gannon Dick [mailto:gannon_dickyahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:14 PM
> To: devodftoolkit.openoffice.org
> Subject: RE: [odftk-dev] Writing ods files?
> 
> 
> Working for the Government AND doing the right thing. 
Sounds like a
> clever idea, but I'm not sure it would work here south
of the border. 
> OTOH I don't know if it's ever been tried.
> 
> A little tip: the ODF files are zipped in segments.  I
too 
> (like Witold
> Szczerba) have modified an extracted content.xml
directly (with XSLT)
> and and then added the new content.xml back to the
package.  It's a
> little more handling that absolutely necessary, but it
works.  Same
> thing can be done with meta.xml, and probably should
for government
> work.
> 
> --Gannon
> --- Michael.Davisservicecanada.gc.ca wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, Gannon.
> > 
> > I'm already exporting to native xls via the Apache
POI library.
> > Getting Excel to read it is no problem. I just
want to export to
> > native ods because it's the right thing to do 
> > 
> > cheers,
> > Michael
> >  
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Gannon Dick [mailto:gannon_dickyahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:09 PM
> > > To: devodftoolkit.openoffice.org
> > > Subject: Re: [odftk-dev] Writing ods files?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If multiple worksheets were not a problem you
could just write an
> > HTML
> > > table.  Rename this text file with *.xls, and
EXCEL will read it. 
> > An
> > > old trick, but it has put out many a report
...
> > > 
> > > I never checked to see if Open Office reads
HTML tables 
> in the same
> > > way, perhaps I should.
> > > --- Michael.Davisservicecanada.gc.ca wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm working on a Java application that
can export its data in a
> > > > spreadsheet format. My client is the
Canadian government, and
> > though
> > > > they're slow to show any interest in
ODF, I'd like to be a bit
> > > > forward thinking and allow the data to
be exported in 
> ODS format.
> > > > 
> > > > The data is simple - just numbers and
text, no formulas or 
> > > formatting
> > > > (though I do need to be able to create
several 
> worksheets in each
> > > > document). Is the odf4j library yet
capable of creating simple
> > ODS
> > > > docs?
> > > > 
> > > > If so, do I need to register as a
project member in order to get
> > the
> > > > source code?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > Michael Davis
> > > > Software Developer (on contract)
> > > > Publiservice
> > > > Telephone | Téléphone 613-949-0446
> > > > 47 Clarence St, Ottawa
> > > > Service Canada
> > > > Government of Canada | Gouvernement du
Canada
> > > >  
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > >
> > 
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