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I have a program which generates xml files for excel but these files
are not recognized by open office calc. I looked at the OO uno library,
but it seems like an over kill.

In my experience, for simpler documents, it is much faster to directly
write to underlying XML format. Has anyone done this? Any idea on the
XML format used by Open Office Calc?

VJ

I just found something in perl:

http://tools.openoffice.org/profilin...gFile/XML.html

Will try and reverse engineer this, unless something like this exists
in python.

VJ

vj wrote:
> I just found something in perl:
>
> http://tools.openoffice.org/profilin...gFile/XML.html
>
> Will try and reverse engineer this, unless something like this exists
> in python.
>
> VJ

Isn't generating CSV output suitable to your needs?
Python's CSV module makes that very simple - unless you want to include
images, etc. in the XLS file?

Vasudev
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vj wrote:

> I have a program which generates xml files for excel but these files
> are not recognized by open office calc. I looked at the OO uno library,
> but it seems like an over kill.

this could be a start:

http://ooopy.sourceforge.net/

</F>

> http://ooopy.sourceforge.net/

I downloaded the package. unfortunately there are no examples that come
with. I found another python package which is more geared to creating
simple calc objects from python at. Apparently it is a port of the perl
library.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=87437

Here is one of the examples from the library. Seems pretty simple and
exactly what I was looking for:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
import ooolib

# Create your document
doc = ooolib.Calc()

# Set values. The values are set in column, row order, but the values
are
# not in the traditional "A5" style format. Instead we require two
integers.
# set_cell_value(col, row, datatype, value)
for row in range(1, 9):
for col in range(1, 9):
doc.set_cell_value(col, row, "float", col * row)

# Save the document to the file you want to create
doc.save("calc-example01.ods")

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
VJ

> Isn't generating CSV output suitable to your needs?
> Python's CSV module makes that very simple - unless you want to include
> images, etc. in the XLS file?

You cannot create multiple worksheets using this method, or apply any
other form of formatting.

VJ

vj wrote:
> > Isn't generating CSV output suitable to your needs?
> > Python's CSV module makes that very simple - unless you want to include
> > images, etc. in the XLS file?
>
> You cannot create multiple worksheets using this method, or apply any
> other form of formatting.
>
> VJ

Ok, got it.