--On 12 May 2002 14:40 +0200 Oliver Bleutgen <myzope@gmx.net> wrote:
Integrating OpenOffice and zope will indeed be a very cool killer application. The more I look at OO, the more I like it and think it will have a great impact. As for integration via COM, I'm no expert at this, but using UNO (OO's component model) might be the better way. Take a look at http://polysorbate.org/?work/pyuno the beginning of python bindings for UNO.
Thanks. Clearly it's about time I got closer to OpenOffice.
I'm very excited about the possibilites which this might offer in the future, unfortunately I'm quite unfamiliar with the exotic language OO is implemented in ;-).
Another remark, perhaps for OpenOffice Documents it might be worth contemplating about not going the conversion route (at least in some cases - e.g. spreadsheets), instead doing something with the files natively, it's XML afterall.
Agreed - this is the "pure" way of doing things (Phil Harris and Joe Nicholls adopted this approach some time back - for an early version of their architecture see <http://www.bris.ac.uk/ISC/cms/jn/word_xml_html.gif> ) Right now, though, I think the world would be grateful for more brute force solutions that will deal with legacy Word (and other Office) documents. Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/