[libreoffice-users] Re: Import XML files?

2012-10-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/10/12 20:54, Mark Stanton a écrit : Hi Mark, > I've got an XML file (I've generated myself, programmatically). > > I thought it ought to be easy to import it in LO (3.4.6), somehow. I > thougth Calc would be a good bet, but it just gives me "General I/O > error". Base does the same. >

[libreoffice-users] Re: Import XML files?

2012-10-04 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 03.10.2012 20:54, Mark Stanton wrote: > I've got an XML file (I've generated myself, programmatically). > > I thought it ought to be easy to import it in LO (3.4.6), somehow. I > thougth Calc would be a good bet, but it just gives me "General I/O > error". Base does the same. > > The websi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Import XML files?

2012-10-04 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-10-05 10:27, Andreas Säger wrote: MySQL can import your : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/load-xml.html If there is any reason why you want in a calculator software, connect a registerd Base document to your MySQL server and dump the imported data from the data source pane into

[libreoffice-users] Re: Import XML files?

2012-10-04 Thread Andreas Säger
MySQL can import your : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/load-xml.html If there is any reason why you want in a calculator software, connect a registerd Base document to your MySQL server and dump the imported data from the data source pane into a sheet which creates a refreshable link. XS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Import XML files?

2012-10-04 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-10-05 02:22, Jay Lozier wrote: On 10/04/2012 08:11 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: 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 expor

[libreoffice-users] Re: Import XML files?

2012-10-04 Thread Andreas Säger
FoxPro export exports database fields like this: 12345 01/01/2004 123 01 1450 02 2480 It might be comparatively easy to write a Base driver for structures like this one. A spreadsheet does not imply any such structure. As far as I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Import XML files?

2012-10-04 Thread Jay Lozier
On 10/04/2012 08:11 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: > 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 > fla

[libreoffice-users] Re: Import XML files?

2012-10-04 Thread Andreas Säger
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. 1.43 ertzuiopdfghjklöxcvbnm How wou