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Dog86

Using XForms created with OpenOffice

Hallo,

Open Office supports now XForms. So it is possible to create an XForm with open office. I checked the .otd File and found some xml Files containing the information of the XForm.

Is there any possibility to work with XForms in orbeon created with Open Office? Maybe there is any converter or something like that.

Greetings

Jakob

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Using XForms created with OpenOffice

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Jakob,

Jakob Mandalka wrote

Open Office supports now XForms. So it is possible to create an XForm with
open office. I checked the .otd File and found some xml Files containing the
information of the XForm.

Is there any possibility to work with XForms in orbeon created with Open
Office? Maybe there is any converter or something like that.

As far as I remember, Open Office only uses the XForms model but defines its own non-XForms controls which it binds to the model. So there is no easy way to take a document produced with Open Office and render it as in Orbeon Forms (or any other XForms engine). I assume you could take that document and change it, either manually or through XSLT, into XForms that runs in Orbeon Forms.

Another interesting project would be to implement the Open Office controls with XBL. Using XBL you can implement rich controls, and if you implement all the Open Office controls, then you might be able to run the document produced by Open Office directly in Orbeon Forms.

Alex

Dog86

Re: Re: Using XForms created with OpenOffice

Ok, thanks for this answer.

Maybe I will start to write the XBL.

Greetings Jakob

2009/7/9 Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]>

Jakob,

Jakob Mandalka wrote:
>
> Open Office supports now XForms. So it is possible to create an XForm with
> open office. I checked the .otd File and found some xml Files containing
> the
> information of the XForm.
>
> Is there any possibility to work with XForms in orbeon created with Open
> Office? Maybe there is any converter or something like that.
>

As far as I remember, Open Office only uses the XForms model but defines its
own non-XForms controls which it binds to the model. So there is no easy way
to take a document produced with Open Office and render it as in Orbeon
Forms (or any other XForms engine). I assume you could take that document
and change it, either manually or through XSLT, into XForms that runs in
Orbeon Forms.

Another interesting project would be to implement the Open Office controls
with XBL. Using XBL you can implement rich controls, and if you implement
all the Open Office controls, then you might be able to run the document
produced by Open Office directly in Orbeon Forms.

Alex

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Re: Using XForms created with OpenOffice

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Jakob,

Jakob Mandalka wrote

Ok, thanks for this answer.

Maybe I will start to write the XBL.

Great. When doing so, make sure to look at the existing components; those can serve as good examples and starting points.

Alex

Dog86

Re: Re: Re: Using XForms created with OpenOffice

So, I startet to write an XSLT which will transform the ODF XML to XHTML.

Open Office provides the possibility to Export the "XForms" via XSLT, so I decided to use XSLT as "language" for this transformation.

Greetings

Jakob

2009/7/10 Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]>

Jakob,

Jakob Mandalka wrote:
>
> Ok, thanks for this answer.
>
> Maybe I will start to write the XBL.
>

Great. When doing so, make sure to look at the existing components; those
can serve as good examples and starting points.

Alex

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Re: Re: Using XForms created with OpenOffice

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Jakob,

Jakob Mandalka wrote

So, I startet to write an XSLT which will transform the ODF XML to XHTML.

Open Office provides the possibility to Export the "XForms" via XSLT, so I
decided to use XSLT as "language" for this transformation.

Sounds great. You'll let you know it works out.

Alex

Dog86

Re: Re: Re: Re: Using XForms created with OpenOffice

Status-Report:

The work is going on. It seems to be possible to export via XSLT all needed information and to design, via CSS, the elements. At the moment my XSLT File is possible to export all Elements Used in OO and all Instances and all Bindings. So a simple Form created in OpenOffice can be exported via XSLT and run in Orbeon.

At the moment I'm missing Functions like Insert or Delete a Row in a Table. Or just a simple Switch. I will test now if it will be possible to write an macro which will provide this functionality in OpenOfiice and will check after that if I can transform that to XForms / Orbeon.

Maybe we have someone with improved OpenOffice Macro-Skills in this Mailing-List, because I never wrote a macro for OO and a little bit Help would be greate in this case.

So If anyone is able to help me with macros, feel free to contact me. ;)

Greetings Jakob

2009/7/12 Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]>

Jakob,

Jakob Mandalka wrote:
>
> So, I startet to write an XSLT which will transform the ODF XML to XHTML.
>
> Open Office provides the possibility to Export the "XForms" via XSLT, so I
> decided to use XSLT as "language" for this transformation.
>

Sounds great. You'll let you know it works out.

Alex

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Erik Bruchez

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Using XForms created with OpenOffice

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Thanks for the update!

-Erik

On Jul 15, 2009, at 12:48 AM, Jakob Mandalka wrote:

> Status-Report:
>
> The work is going on. It seems to be possible to export via XSLT all
> needed information and to design, via CSS, the elements. At the
> moment my XSLT File is possible to export all Elements Used in OO
> and all Instances and all Bindings. So a simple Form created in
> OpenOffice can be exported via XSLT and run in Orbeon.
>
> At the moment I'm missing Functions like Insert or Delete a Row in a
> Table. Or just a simple Switch. I will test now if it will be
> possible to write an macro which will provide this functionality in
> OpenOfiice and will check after that if I can transform that to
> XForms / Orbeon.
>
> Maybe we have someone with improved OpenOffice Macro-Skills in this
> Mailing-List, because I never wrote a macro for OO and a little bit
> Help would be greate in this case.
>
> So If anyone is able to help me with macros, feel free to contact
> me. ;)
>
> Greetings Jakob
>
> 2009/7/12 Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]>
>
> Jakob,
>
>
> Jakob Mandalka wrote:
> >
> > So, I startet to write an XSLT which will transform the ODF XML to
> XHTML.
> >
> > Open Office provides the possibility to Export the "XForms" via
> XSLT, so I
> > decided to use XSLT as "language" for this transformation.
> >
>
> Sounds great. You'll let you know it works out.
>
> Alex
>
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Danny Bell

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Using XForms created with OpenOffice

Erik,

How far did you get with the XSLT? I've just been introduced to OOs XForm capabilities and would like some sort of converter to Orebon.

Thanks,

Danny

Erik Bruchez wrote

Thanks for the update!

-Erik

On Jul 15, 2009, at 12:48 AM, Jakob Mandalka wrote:

> Status-Report:
>
> The work is going on. It seems to be possible to export via XSLT all
> needed information and to design, via CSS, the elements. At the
> moment my XSLT File is possible to export all Elements Used in OO
> and all Instances and all Bindings. So a simple Form created in
> OpenOffice can be exported via XSLT and run in Orbeon.
>
> At the moment I'm missing Functions like Insert or Delete a Row in a
> Table. Or just a simple Switch. I will test now if it will be
> possible to write an macro which will provide this functionality in
> OpenOfiice and will check after that if I can transform that to
> XForms / Orbeon.
>
> Maybe we have someone with improved OpenOffice Macro-Skills in this
> Mailing-List, because I never wrote a macro for OO and a little bit
> Help would be greate in this case.
>
> So If anyone is able to help me with macros, feel free to contact
> me. ;)
>
> Greetings Jakob
>
> 2009/7/12 Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com>
>
> Jakob,
>
>
> Jakob Mandalka wrote:
> >
> > So, I startet to write an XSLT which will transform the ODF XML to
> XHTML.
> >
> > Open Office provides the possibility to Export the "XForms" via
> XSLT, so I
> > decided to use XSLT as "language" for this transformation.
> >
>
> Sounds great. You'll let you know it works out.
>
> Alex
>
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