[#849] - Support for Open Office Contents.xml

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[ 1050105 ] Support for Open Office Contents.xml

Submitted By: Christopher Mann - christopol
Date Submitted: 2004-10-19 08:11
Last Updated By: gt78 - Settings changed
Date Last Updated: 2004-11-19 06:20
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Assigned To: Giulio Toffoli
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Support for Open Office Contents.xml

Hi,

Can I create OpenOffice contents.xml output with this project ?

Chris

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Date: 2004-10-20 03:48
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UDK is only a developer kit to interact with UNO objects. This don't seems a way to speed up the development of an exporter. Anyway you can print the DTD for contents.xml
documents, print the DTD of jasperprint (jasperprint.dtd is for JasperReports enerated print exported in xml) and search for one to one mapping of elements: I can assure hat 80-90% of jasperprint tags have a match in the complex (and complete) dtd for contents.xml.

Giulio

Date: 2004-10-20 03:29
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I thought that that may be your reply.

Here is another strategy for eventually integrating OpenOffice in iReport :

http://udk.openoffice.org/

My interpretation (please confirm) is that this allows access to the OpenOffice API. With the OpenOffice API, it may be possible to implement an output manipulator.

Is that the way things work in iReport? Do the way things work in iReport suggest a compatibility with the above-mentioned idea?

Date: 2004-10-20 03:24
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Hi Christopher,

I took a look to sites you have pointed to. For now Jasperreports (iReport project is based on JasperReports, the core report engine), don't support as output the contents.xml file format. Anyway JasperReports it thought to be modular. JasperReports, when generates a report, creates a java object that contains the meta-report. This object can be "exported" in many formats trought drivers (or
exporters): there is a pdf driver, an xml driver, an xls driver, etc... this

drivers are named Exporters. What you need is an exporter to generate a contents.xml. Taking a look to contents.xml specifics, this should not be much difficult (almost to have a first basic similarity in the final rendering). For more information about how to implement a JRExporter, go to the JasperReports project http://jasperreports.sf.net).

I hope this helps you

Giulio

Date: 2004-10-20 03:01
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contents.xml is the main file-format for Open Office. General infomation is viewable here : http://xml.openoffice.org/general.html

The part of the book that decribes contents.xml is viewable
here :
http://books.evc-cit.info/ch02.php#text-doc-superstructure-section

Open Office could help with the rapport generator or take the information and publish it in a OpenOffice document.

Is my question oriented correctly ?

I want to produce OpenOffice documents from the rapport generator. Would I be better off doing a 'mail-merge' kind of thing.

Date: 2004-10-20 00:56
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What's a contents.xml?

You can write your own exporter: this means that you can't now, but it's not impossible writing an export driver.

Giulio

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