Python and Open Office

[Terry Reedy]

Hartmut Goebel wrote:

> As I thought everybody already knows, ODF is simply a Zip-File 
> containing some XML files.

I thought it just *was* xml.  But examination with notepad showed 
otherwise.

 > So there is no need to use OOo for handling
> the files.
> 
> So odfpy seams to be the best way to to this.

Since odfpy automatically handles combining the at-least-4 xml files 
into one coherent class on loading, and putting the various properties 
into the proper xml files on saving, this looks pretty straightforward. 
  Thanks for the reference.

One way to learn the meaning of some of the numerous attributes and 
values is to create a file with the wanted features with OOo, save, 
unzip, and examine the xml to see which tags are used for which features.


  You may also want to check
> OOopy <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/OOoPy/>.

I will glance at that too.
> 
> If you are going to interact with OOo, you may want to try out
> <http://openoffice-python.origo.ethz.ch/>
>