Hello Erin,
I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean...
Let's see... your company is moving to a new XML file format and you
would like to open those XML files in OOo. Is that what you mean?
Yes, OOo 2.0 uses the OpenDocument format. That is the international
open standard for office documents.
It should be possible to make a filter to transform your company's XML
format into OpenDocument, which OOo can read. This may be easy or hard
depending on how complex your company's XML format is. I would be happy
to take a look at a sample file from your company (pick something that
is not confidential, or has fake data) and give you an estimate of how
difficult this would be.
If your company's format is not too complicated, I and others might be
able to develop this filter for you. I can't promise anything because I
am already occupied making a filter to turn DocBook files into
OpenDocument. (DocBook is another XML format). I work at the
OpenDocument Fellowship. That's a volunteer project trying to promote
the OpenDocument format. We have a good team of developers, and helping
a company use OpenDocument clearly fits our mandate :)
http://opendocumentfellowship.org
Your email also says "Another feature is the ability to update the tabel
with a few clicks". I don't know what you mean here.
Cheers,
Daniel.
Erin McLaughlin wrote:
Years ago I was introduced to Open Office through my company using the
program for a project render files to PDF. Since then, I have used Open
Office to accomplish work that MS Office could not do easily. My company
has a new program that manages work and stores that information in XML data
files. I am able to view data in those files in a table format using MS
Excel. Looking through all the information regarding OOo 2.0, I see the
files are stored in OOo as XML, but I have not found a way read it in a
table format. Another feature of the XML is the ability to update the table
with a few clicks. If there is something I am missing, please let me know.
I can also be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you,
Erin McLaughlin
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