Editing Word documents in Perl (Openoffice Writer or MS Word)

[Tony]

Hello,

I want to read and edit openoffice / staroffice writer documents. Does
anyone know of any modules for that?

Ideally, I would've liked a module for editing MS Word documents, but
win32:le requires Windows, and I'm running Linux. I wish there were
something like Spreadsheet::WriteExcel for MS Word!

Thanks in advance,

Tony

 

[Jonathan Stowe]

I want to read and edit openoffice / staroffice writer documents. Does
anyone know of any modules for that?

Native OpenOffice documents are XML, you might want to look at some of
the XML modules on CPAN to assess their suitability to the task.

/J\

 

[henq]

Hello,

I want to read and edit openoffice / staroffice writer documents. Does
anyone know of any modules for that?

Ideally, I would've liked a module for editing MS Word documents, but
win32:le requires Windows, and I'm running Linux. I wish there were
something like Spreadsheet::WriteExcel for MS Word!

Thanks in advance,

Tony

Don't know about open/star, but in MS Word you can save a document in RTF
format. You can even change it's extrension from .rtf to .doc, the format
will remain rtf.
Use any templating technique to mongify the documents. Works for Excel too.

~henq