[Libreoffice] Document( header=table, body=table )

[Gordon Haverland]

On April 15, 2011, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 06:54 -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote:
> > On April 15, 2011, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 17:53 -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote:
> > > > Normally, a header is a single line.  For some documents,
> > > > part of that single line could be an image (preferably
> > > > vector).
> > > 
> > > You've started with some solutions that didn't work, but
> > > didn't state the problem to be solved. So I'm baffled as
> > > to the question being asked.
> > 
> > Any idea what does (will?) work?
> 
> What I'm driving at is that it's not clear from your email what
> it is you are trying to achieve.

While there are words and numbers in these documents, with the 
possible exception of notes at the end there are no sentences.  

One specific kind of change is:
One cell in the header (the header is a table) contains pressures 
and temperatures.  If the temperature is metric and greater than 
0C, it is sometimes some arbitrary large temperature, and needs to 
be set to 260C.  If the temperature is English units and greater 
than 0F, it is sometimes some arbitrary large temperature, and 
needs to be set to 500F.

There are other changes like incorrect spacing (lack of whitespace 
or one too many whitespace) in a string.  For example, something 
might read "ASME B16. 5", it should be "ASME B16.5".  These things 
are scattered across a large set of files, all with the same 
format.

Using the perl OpenOffice::OODoc module, I have stumbled across 
how to find the table, and I can get the delimted textContent.  So 
far, I haven't found how to get at the table in the header.  
getAutoStyleList returns 29, and getMasterStyleList returns 2 if 
that helps.

Gord