So, the 'Text' word doesn't mean that the features described in the present manual chapter are dedicated to OpenDocument Text (ODT) documents only. These features are text-oriented, but can be used on documents of any class, such as spreadsheets or presentations as well as text documents. Some of these containers can host other containers: for example, a table contains rows, a row contains cells, a section can contain almost everything including other sections, etc. The OpenDocument specification defines a lot of such containers, and the present API supports many of them, such as paragraphs, headings, tables (or spreadsheets), lists, sections, and draw pages. A text container is a document element which can (and must) be used in order to support a text and integrate it at the right place and according to the right presentation rules.

These methods are not essentially dedicated to string processing they are more precisely focused on text containers. This manual chapter describes the text-oriented methods of OpenOffice::OODoc, implemented by the OpenOffice::OODoc::Text class, and inherited by the OpenOffice::OODoc::Document class.

OpenOffice::OODoc::Text - The text processing submodule of OpenOffice::OODoc DESCRIPTION

updateUserFieldReferences(user_field ).

updateCell(table, row, column, value ).

substituteText(element, filter, replacement).

setTextFields(element, expression, field-type ).

setHyperlink(element, expression, url ).

setHyperlink(path, position, expression, url).

selectElementsB圜ontent( filter, action ).

selectElementsB圜ontent( filter, replacement).

replaceText(element, filter, replacement).

replaceText(path, position, filter, replacement).

insertTable(element, name, rows, columns ).

insertTable(path, position, name, rows, columns ).

insertString(path, position, text, offset).

getNoteElement(class => $note_class, citation => $note_citation).

autoSheetNormalizationOn(height, width).

Constructor : OpenOffice::OODoc::Text->new().

Openoffice columns in header