From: Martin Sevior (msevior_at_seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 21:24:25 EST
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 03:18, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> > I see that a DocBook export/import plugin exists for
> > the AbiWord
> > format. I suspect this is tightly bound to the
> > AbiWord code. Do any
> > stylesheets exist that could be reused?
>
> This is tightly bound to AbiWord code. We do not have
> any XSLT stylesheets that do this work for us.
>
> > How do you feel about 3rd parties writing code that
> > generates AbiWord
> > documents; if we write our own plugin in
> > Conglomerate that spews out
> > AbiWord XML files, how likely is it to work?
>
> We feel great and encourage such use. If conglomerate
> "spews out" valid AbiWord XML files, then things will
> "just work" because there's no difference between them
> and "normal" AbiWord files.
>
Just to emphasize this point, I'm writing a little budgeting application
for my own personal use that will generate reports in native *.abw
format. It's very easy to generate Tables with rich text markup this
way.
Cheers
Martin
> Best regards,
> Dom
>
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