Dear All, I would like to say happy Thanksgiving for all U.S. subscribers to this mailing list. I have one quick question for Perl gurus and also one quick for Python gurus.
Ever since MS "introduced" new Office 2007 formats I keep receiving more and more docx and xmlx. Unlike previous things which came out of the same kitchen these are in essence just simple XML files zipped together with style sheets files. I was looking for a very simple solutions to convert these documents to txt and csv files along the lines of catdoc. For a single files when people do not care much about format of the original documents simple sed scripts are enough. However, there are two very simple Perl solutions which seems to go step further docx2txt (http://sourceforge.net/projects/docx2txt/) and Spreadsheet::XLSX (http://search.cpan.org/~dmow/Spreadsheet-XLSX-0.13-withoutworldwriteables/) In particular first one seems to be more polished and except for unnecessary use of Bash shell for a script that comes with it seems like a fairly simple code to me. Would anybody from Perl gurus be interested to make a quick ports (I know I can use them as stand alone Perl scripts but it would be nice just to install them as packages). It seems silly to me that I take a shot at the ports when there are so many serious Perl users around. The second question is for Python gurus. I am also aware of xlsx2csv (Python script) https://github.com/dilshod/xlsx2csv which seems to be doing exactly what I want but using Python instead of Perl (a bit strange choice for me). The drawback is that Python is not the part of the base but in 99% of my desktop installations I do end up with Python anyway so what a hack. Anybody interested in the quick port? xlsx2csv seems more refine than similar Perl module. Most Kind Regards, Predrag Punosevac
