Mark Stanton wrote > I hope not, XML is supposed to be a self defining file format surely?
It's a meta-file format. You (who defines all the XML tags) are the one and only person able to develop import and export software for your particular flavour of XML. <xml> <BLAH foo="bar"> <blub x=12>1.43</blub> <scramble crucifix=True>ertzuiopdfghjklöxcvbnm</scramble> </BLAH> </xml> How would you translate this into a spreadsheet? Is BLAH a row, a column? What is scramble? How to deal with the attributes? Nobody ever tells us anything about his/her user-defined file formats such as CSV or XML. So most of the topics becaome lengthy and some remain unsolved. > A general importer ought to be easy, no? Google reveals plenty of examples about how to write XLST scritpts to import/export user-defined XML formats into/from ODF. This is development work just like writing macros or setting up a database. In all those years since OOo 1.0 nobody wrote a generic XML-to-Calc tool. I would search in the database world for existing XML tools for database engines. Once you have the data in a connectable database, you have it it in Calc and Writer as well. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Import-XML-files-tp4010875p4010988.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
