using Perl to generate docx file

So here's my assignment: I have an existing Perl script that takes a bunch of info dumped from a database and uses LaTeX to turn it into a PDF file. My job is to change this so the info is turned into a Word .docx file (which, for anyone who doesn't know, is a zip archive of a bunch of XML files).

My question is, does anyone know of any readily-available scripts that already do this (or something similar, in part or in whole), so I don't reinvent any wheels unnecessarily? Or, if not, do any of the more experienced folks here (I'm also learning Perl while I work on this) have any suggestions on how to approach this problem? Any constructive feedback you can provide would be helpful!

Thanks!
Kaiti

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Re: using Perl to generate docx file by Corion (Pope) on Mar 04, 2010 at 19:40 UTC
It seems there are no DocX modules on CPAN, but if it's "just XML", I would suggest you go the route of creating a template in Word and then use one of the template modules to replace the placeholders in your template with the actual data from the database.	[reply]
Re^2: using Perl to generate docx file by jedikaiti (Pilgrim) on Mar 04, 2010 at 20:09 UTC
Thanks! I do have a Word template for the document, so I'll go look at the template modules. :-) Yay! Kaiti	[reply]
Re^3: using Perl to generate docx file by Anonymous Monk on Jul 19, 2011 at 14:55 UTC
Hi Kaiti, I have quite the same thing to do : from a set of data, generate a .docx (or .doc) document as automatically as possible. Did you manage to do that with the Word templates? Cheers, Xavier.	[reply]
Re: using Perl to generate docx file by MidLifeXis (Prior) on Jul 19, 2011 at 15:23 UTC
The org-mode project (http://www.orgmode.org/) has an org-odt export module that may provide a similar template. --MidLifeXis	[reply]
Re^2: using Perl to generate docx file by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2011 at 06:35 UTC
Thanks a lot, I'm now trying to find it on their website!	[reply]


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