On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:22:11PM -0800, David Hummel wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:58:38PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > i'm teaching a few classes and keep my scores/averages in gnumeric > > spreadsheet (which i can convert to openoffice of course). i want to > > have some kind of site where my students can log in using their SSN > > and perhaps a password and be able to look at how they're doing. > > Gnumeric files are gzipped XML documents (and Calc files are zipped ones > I believe). You could have a Perl CGI that decompresses the file, > parses it with XML::Parser, locates the student-specific data, and > presents it on the web page.
Good suggestion. I'd just like to add that XML::Simple is probably the way to go here. I've used it in a couple quick projects before, and it's far easier (IMHO) to work with than any other XML parser. From the perldoc: use XML::Simple; my $ref = XMLin([<xml file or string>] [, <options>]); Presto, $ref is the root of a tree containing all the XML data in the file. -- Samuel Merritt OpenPGP key: http://meat.andcheese.org/~spam/spam_at_andcheese_dot_org.asc PGP information can be found at http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/pgp/
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