[Openmcl-devel] RDNZL Anyone?

[Steven Núñez]

I thought about POI and ABCL, however while POI support for Excel is pretty good, it’s support for MS Word, one of the main inputs to this exercise, is next to nonexistent.

Good ‘blog post BTW. I’m glad to know that ABCL has finally come of age. Now if only someone would create a Common Lisp targeting the Microsoft DLR… (I actually thought of trying to implement just what I need for the purposes of this project, but then came to my senses). IronScheme is one option, but it’s not common lisp, so would end up being more like a scripting language. Workable, though not ideal.

- Steve

From: Hans Hübner <hans.huebner at gmail.com<mailto:hans.huebner at gmail.com>>
Date: Monday, 17 June 2013 16:46
To: Steven Nunez <steven.nunez at illation.com<mailto:steven.nunez at illation.com>>
Cc: "openmcl-devel at clozure.com<mailto:openmcl-devel at clozure.com>" <openmcl-devel at clozure.com<mailto:openmcl-devel at clozure.com>>
Subject: Re: [Openmcl-devel] RDNZL Anyone?

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Steven Núñez <steven.nunez at illation.com<mailto:steven.nunez at illation.com>> wrote:
Perhaps I should have phrased my question a bit differently: Does anyone
have any good ways to access .NET or C libraries on the Microsoft from
CCL? I need to do a lot of manipulation of Office document contents.

If you "just" need to manipulate Office documents, maybe using Apache POI (http://poi.apache.org/) is an option for you.  Apache POI is a Java library and there are a few different ways how to access Java libraries from Lisp.  I'm using ABCL for that purpose (http://netzhansa.blogspot.de/2013/03/dealing-with-excel-files-from-common.html), but there are a few other options (http://www.cliki.net/java) that might be worth looking at.

-Hans
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