eh... that's a start. how about xml processing ? i need a dom-like access and very posibly features like xpath and xsl transformation.
On 8/1/07, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ionel Maries Cristian wrote: > > I belive some form of macro would be suitable for this job. > > The function has to fetch some xml from a remote url, the > > xml has to be parsed and the parameters for the url are > > sent as post data (as xml) > > I've failed to find apis for doing url fetching in basic. > > Python would be suitable for doing that (rich standard > > library, good docs) but, again, i've failed to find a way to use > > python functions as formula functions (basic functions > > are callable from a formula but, there is no obvious way > > to call some python functions from the basic macro) > > > > Any help is apreciated. > > > Have you looked at any "stock quote" examples with Calc? They usually > obtain a document from a URL of some sort and then parse it. > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://ionel.zapto.org ionel.
