Merging template documents

Camelot includes a wizard that allows savy users to merge their own templates with a selection of objects. This can be used to create open xml documents, suited for MS Office.

Create a template document with MS Office

Create a document using MS Office and with some placeholder text on places where you want to insert data.

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And save it as an xml file :

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Clean the XML generated by MS Office

The XML file generated by MS Office can be cleaned using xmllint:

xmllint --format template.xml > template_clean.xml

Replace the placeholders

The template will be merged with the objects in the selection using jinja, where the object in the selection will be available as a variable named obj and the time of merging the document is available as now:

Merge the document

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