Ruby module for editing open office files

Ruby
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I’m having trouble finding a module to edit open office files. I know
they are stored as xml inside a zip file, but I don’t want to have to
roll my own solution unless necessary. There is oo4r but that hasn’t
been updated in over 2 years and there is no documentation. Is there a
more recent and or documented module that will let me edit open office
documents?

2

Have you tried win32ole? If you have a decent OLE object browser you
should be able to find what you need.

3

I think Charlie means OpenOffice.org documents. How would win32ole do
that?

I’m also interested in this. I may have a project or two coming up in
the near future that will require me to do some automation with
various OO.o documents, and I’d love to do the work in Ruby.

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– AL –

4

charlie bowman wrote:

I’m having trouble finding a module to edit open office files. I know
they are stored as xml inside a zip file, but I don’t want to have to
roll my own solution unless necessary. There is oo4r but that hasn’t
been updated in over 2 years and there is no documentation. Is there a
more recent and or documented module that will let me edit open office
documents?

This program is to convert odf (open document format) to xhtml. It might
be a good starting point for what you want to do.
http://books.evc-cit.info/odf_utils/ruby_to_xhtml.html

And this project
http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/
is able to output to odf.

Edwin

P.S. OpenOffice 2 and later uses odf as its default file format.

5

Yes, I mean OpenOffice.org documents. I know that oo4r is a possiblilty
but since I can’t find a tutorial on using it, it will be pretty hard to
get it working. I know the author frequents this list. Maybe he can
shed some light on the status of oo4r and it’s compatibility with
OpenOffice 2.0.