MSOScheme generates code to read Microsoft Office files

The code is generated from a computer readable description of the Microsoft Office file format. This description is in the file src/mso.xml and follows the XML Schema in src/mso.xsd.

MSOScheme can generate code for any project. To write a custom code generator for your project, add a custom generator to the class mso.generator.ParserGeneratorRunner.

MSOScheme comes with three code generators:

JavaParserGenerator : creates mso.javaparser.GeneratedMsoParser This parser parses from a byte[] that is passed to LEInputStream.

QtParserGenerator : creates simpleParser.h, simpleParser.cpp and generatedclasses.cpp simpleParser.h and simpleParser.cpp are used by Calligra. The generated code can parse by reading from a QIODevice that is passed into a LEInputStream.

QtApiGenerator : creates api.h and api.cpp The generated code parses files passed as a const char*.

The code generator is compiled into a jar file mso.jar, with

ant mso.jar

This step also runs the code generators that are shipped with MSOScheme.

Builing the C++ code requires cmake, zlib, xml2, libxslt, make and Qt 4.8.

ant generateParsers
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../cpp
make

This creates executables for testing the generated code on binary Microsoft Office documents.

MSOScheme is licensed as GNU Library General Public License v2. MSOScheme uses Apache POI which is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0. The files generated by MSOScheme are not under any license.