[Vlaanderen] setting up a file hierarchy
Jurgen Pletinckx
jurgen.pletinckx at algonomics.com
Tue May 19 06:55:48 PDT 2009
Please help me do my homework :)
I've got a module which creates .docx files. Those are
Microsoft's latest Word format, as described in the
OOXML standard.
OOXML is not too gruesome to work with, and I'm having
a great time stuffing my reports with figures and tables
and whatnot.
However, one very smelly piece of code is the creation
of a new document. A .docx file is just a zip container
with a handful of XML documents (plus extra media, if
applicable). For most of these, the default content is
fine. But what is the optimal way of generating them?
I currently find myself doing a lot of "mkdir"s and
"print OUT <<EOF"s, but that's messy. I could set up
a template folder (next to the module?) and copy that
around, but that feels awkward as well.
I set up the hierarchy in a folder, and package that
up with Archive::Zip, as it makes interactions with the
files easier. I could write directly into a zip file,
but that doesn't really make a difference to the
problem.
So. Any prior art? How should one treat non-code
dependencies?
(Note: I'm not bothered about deploying this stuff,
this is for now strictly internal. Although, there
doesn't seem to be _anything_ for OOXML on CPAN.
Opportunity!)
--
Jurgen Pletinckx
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