Mike Carifio wrote:
Is it possible to read/write/edit .odt files with swriter in their
"unzipped" state? That way I can use svn for version control of the
parts. Pl. advise. Thanks.
I wasn't specific enough in my question. Second try.
Suppose I create a document using swriter 3 called
my_example_document.odt. It's a "binary document", but actually
it's a zip file which I could unzip after I've saved it.
On a recent Linux using bash and unzip, I could say something like:
$ unzip -d my_example_document my_example_document.odt
$ cd my_example_document
$ ls -1
Configurations2
content.xml
META-INF
meta.xml
mimetype
settings.xml
styles.xml
Thumbnails
This is the "exploded" content of the odt file my_example_document.odt.
I could (say) check this into an svn repo with something like:
$ svn add ..; svn commit .. -m "my_examnple_document"
Ok, good so far. Now I update my_example_document.odt using swriter,
adding some more content. If I want the exploded contents to reflect
these changes, I need to do the unzip operation again, overwriting
the old contents of the directory my_example_document. What I'm looking
for is an approach that reads the document from the directory
my_example_document, let's me edit the contents, and then writes out
the document to my_example_document unzipped.
Based on the previous responses, I guess that there's nothing current
"built in" that makes swriter work this way. I might be able to write
something myself, but I don't currently have enough swriter expertise
to do this. But I can ask the question. Please advise. Thanks.
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