Chris,
> 1. An automatic procedure to extract/reconstitute the documents beween the
> repository tree and the .sxw (zip) format. OpenOffice does have VBA
> compatible automation (hold your yuks, there is room on this planet for a
> few inferior languages)
I researched this and Sun recently released an early access version of their
new Java API for OpenOffice. It appears that they are working very hard to
make Java the preferred API for extending OpenOffice's capabilities going
forward. If we end up going with OpenOffice for the project's documentation
needs, I will volunteer to create a plugin for OpenOffice that will
automatically extract/reconstitute the files for use with a CVS.
> I did notice that I could not open a drawing file using WinZip - are the
> other document types stored as xml or just the text and it's embedded
> drawings?
I created a small sxd drawing file and the jar utility unziped it with no
problems. It consisted of a zipped directory that was very similar to the sxw
file and the content file contained all of the graphics primitives.
Ted
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