On Wed, 5 May 2010 19:57:16 -0600
"Doran L. Barton" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 May 2010 05:14:19 pm Charles Curley wrote:
> > Is anyone out there using OpenOffice::OODoc? I'd like to create a
> > spreadsheet with several sheets, then populate it with data.
> > 
> > Can you point me at one or more relevant tutorials?
> 
> Charles,
> 
> I've not used this module, but I have used Spreadsheet::Read and 
> Spreadsheet::ReadSXC to parse oocalc spreadsheets from a Perl script.
> It works pretty well. I wonder if you could manipulate/create
> spreadsheets the same way. 

I search cpan for spreadsheet:: modules, and didn't see any for writing
odf documents. I may try Spreadsheet::Write - "Simplified writer for CSV
or XLS (MS Excel) files". I can then read either one in OOo.

Much as I hate using an MS proprietary file format.

> 
> CPAN shows OpenOffice::OOCBuilder as something with promise. Is that
> part of the package you named?
> 

There is a review of it:

  This module does not handle Unicode properly, and it has monolithic
  functions, so it's impossible to fix by inheritance, without
  duplicating a lot of code. This makes it a non-starter. It also
  generates the older .sxc format instead of the newer .ods format.

The reviewer suggests OpenOffice::OODoc instead.

I'm pretty sure OpenOffice::OODoc will do what I want; I just can't
figure out how. Gnrrr.

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