openxmllib Processing OpenXML documents with Python
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Processing OpenXML documents with Python openxmllib provides resources to handle OpenXML documents from Python.OpenXML is the new office document format supported natively by MS Office 2007, and as import/export format by Apple iWork'08 and OpenOffice 2.2.OpenXML is defined in the ECMA-376 standard.This library runs on any platform that supports Python 2.4 and the lxml Python library.Installation (from tarball)Get the tarball with your browser, wget, curl or whatever, then: $ tar xfz openxmllib-x.y.y.tar.gz $ cd openxmllib-x.y.z $ sudo python setup.py installInstallation from CheeseshopEven easier tha the tarball: $ easy_install openxmllibUsage: >>> import openxmllib >>> doc = openxmllib.openXmlDocument('office.docx') >>> # Raises a ValueError on not supported office files. >>> doc.mimeType 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document' >>> doc.coreProperties # Keys may depend on application {'title': u'blah...', u'creator': u'John Doe', ...} >>> doc.extendedProperties # Keys may depend on application {'Words': u'312', 'Application': u'Your favorite word processor', ...} >>> doc.customProperties # May return an empty mapping {'My property': u'My value', ...} >>> doc.allProperties # Merges core+extended+custom properties (see above) {...} >>> doc.indexableText(include_properties=False) u'all the words of that document body' >>> doc.indexableText(include_properties=True) u'all the words of that document body and all properties values' Here are some key features of "openxmllib": · Extract indexable text from an OpenXML document. · Extract meta data from an OpenXML document (author, title, ...) Requirements: · Python · lxml What's New in This Release: · The bug of mid word style change is still not fixed in presentation and spreadsheets. Anyway, we needed an API sanitazation. · Factory API changed for a safer and faster document object construction. · Added support for new mime types that are not in the standard mimetypes module.

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