On Tue 10 Feb 04, 6:40 PM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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. > > OpenOffice.org 1.1 has PDF export capabilities. Maybe that'll work...? i assume that would export a whole page? probably not a good idea for class grades. :-) > > i'd rather not spend multi-hours doing that, so if there's an easy > > solution, that's great. if not, i can live without it. > > > > i'd also rather keep my stuff in spreadsheet format, not in a db. > > > > is it possible to read and parse openoffice files easily for web pages? > > Export as tab-delim'd first? ;)
hmmm... maybe. i had already considered parsing XML output, but was hoping to get something higher level. i guess i have a better shot at cooking up something to parse tab delimited files in under 60 minutes than i do XML data (which i've never worked on). maybe tab delimited and php wouldn't be a bad idea, although i admit i was hoping for something a bit higher level. unfortunately, i don't have time to hack right now. if anything, i kind of need to just plug in and use... pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
