On 01/28/2013 10:43 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>  On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, zxq9 wrote:
>
>>  On 01/28/2013 03:17 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote:
>>>   Hello,
>>>
>>>   Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server?
>>>   Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features
>>>  on a
>>>   Web Server
>>>
>>>   TIA
>>
>>  No idea what features you are looking to implement, but if the goal
>>  is to have your web server generate ODF files natively...
>>
>>  I've found it a lot easier to generate ODFs directly from templates
>>  rather than go through LibreOffice. I've written tools to do this for
>>  me from within Django and Snap but haven't gone to the trouble to
>>  generalize (or clean up) the solution. ODF turns out to be
>>  wonderfully easy to generate, parse, manipulate, etc. and is now the
>>  only XML format that doesn't make me gag.
>>
>>  This might not be at all the direction you are trying to head in, but
>>  if it is a "generate docs/spreadsheets/charts/etc from source data"
>>  type problem don't write off the idea of generating your own from an
>>  extension to your web framework.
>
>  If you're looking into generating ODF output from a structured
>  language (for documentation/publishing purposes) take a look at:
>
>      http://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf
>
>  Unfortunately, Github broke native asciidoc support for the README, so
>  you better read that from:
>
>      https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf/blob/master/README.asciidoc
>
>  Kind regards,

thanks to all for the suggestions
will post back later on the results.

--
Gerald