So here's my assignment: I have an existing Perl script that takes a bunch of info dumped from a database and uses LaTeX to turn it into a PDF file. My job is to change this so the info is turned into a Word .docx file (which, for anyone who doesn't know, is a zip archive of a bunch of XML files).

My question is, does anyone know of any readily-available scripts that already do this (or something similar, in part or in whole), so I don't reinvent any wheels unnecessarily? Or, if not, do any of the more experienced folks here (I'm also learning Perl while I work on this) have any suggestions on how to approach this problem? Any constructive feedback you can provide would be helpful!

Thanks!
Kaiti

In reply to using Perl to generate docx file by jedikaiti

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