For traditional binary file format, you might have already noticed the binary file format was two-layered.
The underlaying one is Windows Compound Binary File Format, which looks like a FAT of floppy disk. The upper one is individual Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ... file format. http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/officebinaryformats.mspx You did not mention what programing language you were using or what platform you were working on. Every major programming language, such as Perl, Python, Java, ... seems to have useful libraries for the Compound Binary File Format. So, just search for it in the Internet. If you are using Windows, just use its library files. Source files of OpenOffice.org regarding such a functionality might help to research the inside, but it would be hard to reuse them due to lots of dependency among internal modules. If you want to use OpenOffice.org Basic or an external language like Java connecting to your OpenOffice.org instance as a server via API, there would be another fun story. Regards, Tora --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
