- From: Nicolas Girard <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: create tables from external data
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:15:11 +0200
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:23:58AM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
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> I considered using the following operators:
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> - hybrid
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> - specific
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> - action
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> but they aren't documented so i don't know neither if they are suited,
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> nor how i could include them in a macro. Or maybe this is not directly
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> possible due to security reasons, but indirectly as an extension,
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> which seems to be far from obvious... Anyway this kind of interaction
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> would be of the highest interest for many other uses, such as
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> collaborative documents
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> Could you show me a starting point ?
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I actually waited for someone to request this feature.
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So now it is time for me to implement it...
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At a first stage, I will not implement advanced security checks.
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In order to use the feature, you will need to select
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Edit -> Preferences -> Security -> Accept all scripts
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The primitive will be called "extern". It will convert
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the arguments to scheme trees and execute the obtained
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scheme command. The result will be converted back.
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From this, you should be able to do what you want,
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using the "system" command and doing the appropriate conversions.
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I recommend to use the scheme format for all I/O.
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For instance: (row (cell "a") (cell "b") (cell "c") (cell "d))
Wow, looks very tempting !
I understand the security issue -- i have in mind a famous office suite
for which is it quite tricky...
Isn't it an option to set at a document level instead of at an
applcation level ? If you allow scripts to be executed for all documents
you're likely to open it seems quite risky to me.
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Good luck (after the release of 1.0.0.12),
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i'm dying for it !
Cheers,
Nicolas
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