[Gllug] Serverside Word editing

[Tom Schutzer-Weissmann]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 13:04, Luke Hopkins (Broadbean) wrote:
> Afternoon all,
> We have a requirement to edit Word documents through a browser.
> One option I've considered is to convert incoming .docs to HTML, use one
> of the many WYSIWYG editors to make the change, then convert back;
> however I'm wondering if theres anything available that will work
> directly on the Word doc. Is it possible to interface to OO through a
> browser?

If you have webdav available, you could imitate the Zope External Editor
system (http://www.zope.org/Members/Caseman/ExternalEditor/0.7-Release).
It works by serving the files with a dummy MIME type, picking that up on
the client side with a dedicated handler that launches the right
application and looks out for the file being changed / closed in order
to upload it back to the server. 

not for Python-haters :)
Tom


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