-------- Original Message --------
From: john d. herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed 09 May 2007 10:37:08 EST

> Is there a way, in Basic, to retrieve the contents of DocumentInfo
> fields from Writer docs without fully opening the files?
> 
> Any help will be thankfully appreciated
> jdh


I think it depends upon what type and how much info you want to
retrieve. Basically, ".odt" and ".sxw" files are zip files, so detailed
information is compressed into the package. However, if you look at
either of these file types in a hex editor you can see some of the meta
info without unzipping the file. I have not studied this in any detail,
but from my cursory glance at the file structure, some (if not all) of
the info you want could be retrieved in Basic.

You should be able to glean more info about this if you take a look at
the OpenDocument specs.

If it's not very urgent (I have a business to run, so my spare time is
limited) and you would like some help with this, contact me off-list and
I will try to put some pseudo-code together for you to translate into
your dialect of Basic.

Hope this helps.

Dave

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