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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Question and suggestion about KOffice file formats
From:       Richard Bos <allabos () freeler ! nl>
Date:       2001-01-20 22:53:30
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I find this a good FAQ, should it be included over there?


On Thursday 18 January 2001 00:14, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2001 23:04, Jeff Moyes wrote:
> > Dear KOffice Developers,
> >
> > Unfortunately I have not had much time/luck in trying to get a linux
> > box+KDE+KOffice up so I haven't been able to get enough background
> > information to know if the following might be feasible.  I know that
> > KOffice has xml based file formats. I assume not just the data is stored
> > in xml but the way that information is presented would also have to be
> > stored in the xml file.  Due to this would it be possible to perform
> > XSLTransformations on say a KWord (or other KOffice app (that's why I'm
> > sending this to the general KOffice email address) document to convert it
> > to say XSL Formatting Objects.
> >
> > If this is possible it would be incredible. With the right XSLT
> > stylesheets KOffice would become a WYSIWYG XSLFO generator! (It would be
> > the best XSLFO software available.
> > Also, by piping the output XSLFOs into Apache's FOP KOffice would then be
> > able to make PDF files!
>
> Yes, you could do that.
> You would first need to extract the XML file out of the koffice document,
> which is in fact a TAR.GZ file (see the FAQ). Then, that XML file is just
> like any other one - you can apply XSLT transformations to it.
> If you happen to write such stylesheets, please send them around here ! :-)

-- 
Richard Bos
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