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Merge ODS to XSLFO for Free in perl

Use a free app or Perl SDK to merge ODS and XSLFO, along with several popular formats from Microsoft® Excel.

Perl Code for Merging ODS Files into XSLFO: A Complete Guide

# Converting ODS to HTML
binmode(DATA);
# while( read (DATA, $Book1_data, 8)) {};
read (DATA, $Book1_data, $filelength);
close (DATA);    
my $folder = $TEMPFOLDER; # replace NULL with a proper value
# ready_file('api'=> $api, 'file'=>$name + ".ODS" ,'folder' =>$folder) ;  
$result = $api->cells_workbook_put_convert_workbook( workbook => $Book1_data, format => 'HTML', password => $password, out_path => $out_path,folder =>$folder);

# Converting HTML to XSLFO
# SDK not available
%!(EXTRA string=HTML, string=XSLFO)

How to Megre ODS to XSLFO in Cloud Apps

  1. Initialize WordsApi with Client Id, Client Secret, Base URL & API version
  2. Set requestDocument assign the local ODS file name
  3. Set requestDocumentListDocumentEntriesFileReference and assign local XSLFO file name
  4. Set requestDocumentListDocumentEntries and set file_reference, import_format_mode parameters
  5. Create DocumentEntryList instance and assing requestDocumentListDocumentEntries to document_entries parameter
  6. Call AppendDocumentOnlineRequest to merge ODS file with XSLFO document requestDocument and requestDocumentList
  7. Call WordsApi appendDocumentOnline with parameters

Get Started with Aspose.Total REST APIs

  1. Create an account at Dashboard to get free API quota & authorization details
  2. Get Aspose.Words and Aspose.Cells Cloud SDKs for Perl source code from Aspose.Words GitHub and Aspose.Cells GitHub repos to compile/use the SDK yourself or head to the Releases for alternative download options.
  3. Also have a look at Swagger-based API Reference for Aspose.Words and Aspose.Cells to know more about the REST API.

FAQ

  • What is ODS Format?
    Files with .ods extension stand for OpenDocument Spreadsheet Document format that are editable by user. Data is stored inside ODF file into rows and columns. It is XML-based format and is one of the several subtypes in the Open Document Formats (ODF) family. The format is specified as part of the ODF 1.2 specifications published and maintained by OASIS. A number of applications on Windows as well as other operating systems can open ODS files for editing and manipulation including Microsoft Excel, NeoOffice and LibreOffice. ODS files can also be converted into other spreadsheet formats as well like XLS, XLSX and others by different applications.
  • What is XSLFO Format?
    XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) is a powerful stylesheet language for formatting XML documents. The semantics of the bounded form of paper and print is expressed by XSL-FO when the dimensions are fixed. In contrast to HTML, which represents the semantics of the unbounded form of a browser window with variable dimensions. The XML documents formatted by XSL-FO are mostly used to generate PDF files. XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) is a set of feature-complete W3C technologies intended to design for formatting and exchanging XML documents and XSL-FO part of this language. XSLT and XPath are also other parts of XSL.
  • How can I get started with Aspose.Total REST APIs?
    Quickstart not only guides through the initialization of Aspose.Total Cloud API, it also helps in installing the required libraries.
  • Where can I see the release notes for Aspose.Total Cloud API?
    Complete release notes can be reviewed at Aspose.Total Cloud Documentation.
  • Is it safe to merge ODS to XSLFO in the Cloud?
    Of course! Aspose Cloud uses Amazon EC2 cloud servers that guarantee the security and resilience of the service. Please read more about Aspose's Security Practices.
  • What file formats are supported by Aspose.Total Cloud API?
    Aspose.Total Cloud can merge file formats from any product family to any other product family to PDF, DOCX, XPS, image(TIFF, JPEG, PNG BMP), MD and more. Checkout the complete list of supported file formats.
  • I can not find the SDK for my favorite language. What should I do?
    Aspose.Total Cloud is also available as a Docker Container. Try using it with cURL in case your required SDK is not available yet.