Re: Not reinventing the wheel ...

Stéphane Téletchéa <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> Not sure about the future, but actually it already works with Bibus
> (that's the reason i've looked towards it).
>
> You can get a rather complete description for OpenOffice.org connection:
> http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/bibus_doc/html/en/usingOOo.html
>


As far as I understand the document there are two ways to interact with
OpenOffice:

1) ODBC
This simply pulls the data out of a SQL table via ODBC. This requires that there
is a 1:1 mapping of the fields that OO expects and the fields in the database
table. RefDB reference databases are relational, that is this simple mapping is
not going to work.

2) External control of OO through the UNO interface
Sure you can program OO (and Word, fwiw) using their APIs, but this requires
each bibliography tool to write one interface per supported word processor (n
tools times m word processors makes n*m interfaces).

The OO bib project (Bruce, correct me if I'm wrong) tries to implement a
mechanism that allows OO to retrieve cited data through the SRU/SRW
(http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/) interface from any database that provides
such an interface. This would result in n+m interfaces and is the better
approach as soon as you're looking at more than two word processors and more
than two data sources.

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
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