Great! Here's a good reason to learn xml :-) I when I had to import (but you can also export I believe) data from Excel or Calc I used csv.
Regards Gianluigi 2017-08-22 12:52 GMT+02:00 Rolf-Werner Eilert <rwe-...@osnanet.de>: > Am 22.08.2017 12:41, schrieb Benoît Minisini via Gambas-user: > >> Le 22/08/2017 à 05:47, Doug Hutcheson a écrit : >> >>> On the page http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/intro?nh is this >>> information: >>> >>> Gambas is build on top of many free softwares, and could not exist >>> without them. >>> So I would like to thank every people involved in the following >>> projects: >>> * Linux >>> * KDE >>> * GCC and all of the GNU tools, of course. >>> * The Qt toolkit. >>> * The GIMP and its toolkit GTK+. >>> * Libre Office. >>> * The MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite database management systems. >>> * And any other libraries used by Gambas. >>> >>> The reference to LibreOffice is interesting. Does it mean there are >>> built-in 'hooks' into LibreOffice? I suppose that would be too much to >>> hope for, but perhaps there is a 'bridge' between LO and Gambas? I need >>> to update several LO spreadsheets in tandem with creating and >>> maintaining a new PostgreSQL database storing the same data but in >>> properly normalised tables.I cannot change the structure of the >>> existing spreadsheets, so just uncompressing them and running search- >>> and-replace processes is not quite good enough. >>> >>> Any pointers to help in this would be welcome, even if only to say I am >>> wasting my time. "8-) >>> Kind regards, >>> Doug >>> >> >> No, it just means that I used LibreOffice to write some presentation >> files. :-) >> >> When I want to create a LibreOffice file, I do the following: >> >> - I create a "template" LibreOffice file that has the look of the final >> file, and where the data I want to put is replaced by string patterns. >> >> - I unzip the LibreOffice file. >> >> - I modify the content.xml file by replacing the string patterns with >> the final data. >> >> - I zip the result, and I get my final LibreOffice file. >> >> Regards, >> >> > Clever :) I will print this and pin it to the wall... Might even be a way > to cope with Scribus. > > Regards > > Rolf > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user