[plug] Building a GUI app to generate a wordprocessed letter

[Peter J. Nicol]

>  If open office uses XML, wouldn't it be possible to write up a generic
>  application in OO then open the output file with a text editor and see how it
>  works and create your script to change the generic data with the results from
>  the SQL queries?

now for some more finesse ... scrap MySQL, use a native XML database (not really
necessary, but staying in the whole new XML/WebServices world), output the whole
thing to XML and use XSLT to transform it into whatever you want, OO or whatever.

this model is theoretically 'future proof'.

for a native xml databse, this is getting some press:

http://xml.apache.org/xindice/