Lately I got a lot of help from Cédric of b2ck (another bunch of ex-tiny employees) so that they can replace the openerp way to do things (they are using the deprecated .sxw format) by relatorio openoffice reports.
In order to meet their needs, I complety reviewed the way the openoffice template is written. We work now much more similarly to other genshi templates and it brings some nice goodies :
- generate outputs a genshi Stream that can be rendered as an OpenOffice document,
- testing is way more easy,
- you can apply filters to this stream in order to translate the document,
- styles.xml is now templateable, that way you can make use of openoffice template documents
Cédric also pointed me to bugs in my setup.py and in the way I handled the namespaces from the OO documents. Opening relatorio development really brought us a lot of good ideas and feedback. I am really glad we did this and we will keep doing it at a faster pace then previously planned.
