Stephen Green wrote:
> Hi
>
> How about just using a Calc spreadsheet with a filter so that you can
> use 'Save As' to convert your spreadsheet into the output you want?
>
> I've not tried this with a spreadsheet but intend to do so soon (my
> employers have already standardized on Star Office). I hope it is
> easy enough (we have XSLT skills). Our intended output is flat
> file (fixed width, ideally) but the same should apply as for XML.
>
> Using the spreadsheet, I'm thinking, will give the option of the
> repeated rows where needed. I guess it means mapping from the
> ODF spreadsheet format to the desired output.
>
> Complex bindings, by the way, seem to be difficult to handle by
> the alternative office technologies too in my experience.
>   
Thanks for suggestion!

It is simply more work. Actually what I am working on is to search for
replacement of existing workflow using Microsoft Excel. The server that
process these questionnaire (more than 300,000 copies of Excel sheets)
is XML based, if converting from spreadsheet to XML, we are not getting
better then existing Excel sheets slution. Further these sheets have
paper version, we can probably print XForm OOO documents on paper for
their use, but would not be so easy in OOCalc.

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