From koffice-devel Fri Sep 30 04:04:32 2005 From: Matej Cepl Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:04:32 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: XSLT filter for KOffice? Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=112806601018894 Hi, I have got now a new job so after five years spent almost exclusively on Linux (and most of that time in KDE), I have now work full time with M$ Office (this time 2003 Professional). I was really not expecting much, but I have to confess that today when I tried (in lunch break :-)) how Excel could work with user-designed XML Schema, I was _really_ impressed. I have never wrote schema before, but after reading one article on MSDN (sorry, horrible URL) and five minutes, I was able to create XML file according to my own (very primitive, I admit) XML Schema from a random Excel file I've got in the email. *Really* impressive! Back to KOffice reality. I do not expect that anything like this will be possible in KOffice anytime soon (and for the record, I have no position on Relax NG v. XML Schema battle), but at least I would be interested in XSLT based import/export of random XML document into KOffice (mostly KWord and KSpread). Official filter KOffice page claims that there should be at least XSLT export filter (?The filter generally works although it is not finished, and it may suffer from some instability.?) and in some level maybe some parts of import level (?Work has begun on the filter although the code is still at an early stage of development, and does not work properly.?). But latter may not be switched on, I accept. However, I have here KOffice 1.4.1 (Debian packages from KUbuntu recompiled locally for Debian/testing and KDE 3.4.1), /usr/share/apps/xsltfilter/export/kword/xslfo contains files kword2xslfo-table.xsl and main.xsl (which looks promising), but I have not found a way how to make it work. File/Export in kWord just doesn't suggests anything looking like export to plain XML or any mentioning of XSLT. Is it broken package of KWord, or is it switched off, or there is something else going on? Thanks Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel