2015-03-18 19:07 GMT+04:00 Stefan Seefeld
Second, I don't think an interface to existing office suites is the right approach to the problem. Rather, I would suggest something based on existing standard technologies such as XML (and DocBook in particular), to support the manipulation of structured documents.
Without using existing Office suit API, student will be forced to rewrite the functionality of Open Office from scratch. Working with spreadsheets is not just parsing document, but also evaluating functions, plotting charts and so on... This is hell and nightmare. And it will take insane amount of time ( about 2,190 years of effort https://www.openhub.net/p/libreoffice/estimated_cost) So the approach with unification of APIs seems right to me. -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin