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+#
+# Gramps - a GTK+/GNOME based genealogy program
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Benny Malengier
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Serge Noiraud
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+#
+
+# $Id: docbackend.py 12437 2009-04-13 02:11:49Z pez4brian $
+
+"""File and File format management for the openoffice reports
+"""
+
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Python modules
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+from xml.sax.saxutils import escape
+import os.path
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# GTK modules
+#
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Gramps modules
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+from gen.plug.docbackend import DocBackend
+
+try:
+    from gen.plug import PluginManager, Plugin
+    from gettext import gettext as _
+except ImportError:
+    print 'Plugin manager not imported.'
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Set up logging
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+import logging
+LOG = logging.getLogger(".odfbackend.py")
+
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Document Backend class for cairo docs
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def _escape(string):
+    """ a write to the file
+    """
+    return string
+
+class OdfBackend(DocBackend):
+    """
+    Implementation for open document format docs
+    """
+    
+    STYLETAG_TO_PROPERTY = {
+    }
+
+    # overwrite base class attributes, they become static var of CairoDoc
+    SUPPORTED_MARKUP = [
+            DocBackend.BOLD,
+            DocBackend.ITALIC,
+            DocBackend.UNDERLINE,
+            DocBackend.FONTFACE,
+            DocBackend.FONTSIZE,
+            DocBackend.FONTCOLOR,
+            DocBackend.HIGHLIGHT,
+            DocBackend.SUPERSCRIPT ]
+
+    STYLETAG_MARKUP = {
+        DocBackend.BOLD        : 
+            ("<text:span text:style-name=\"Tbold\">",
+             "</text:span>"),
+        DocBackend.ITALIC      : 
+            ("<text:span text:style-name=\"Titalic\">",
+             "</text:span>"),
+        DocBackend.UNDERLINE   : 
+            ("<text:span text:style-name=\"Tunderline\">",
+             "</text:span>"),
+        DocBackend.SUPERSCRIPT : 
+            ("<text:span text:style-name=\"GSuper\">",
+             "</text:span>"),
+    }
+    
+    ESCAPE_FUNC = lambda x: _escape
+
+    def __init__(self, filename=None):
+        """
+        @param filename: path name of the file the backend works on
+        """
+        DocBackend.__init__(self, filename)
+        
+    def _create_xmltag(self, tagtype, value):
+        """
+        overwrites the method in DocBackend
+        creates the pango xml tags needed for non bool style types
+        """
+        if tagtype not in self.SUPPORTED_MARKUP:
+            return None
+        if ( tagtype == DocBackend.FONTCOLOR ):
+            return ('<text:span text:style-name=\"FontColor__%s__\">' % 
+                                self.ESCAPE_FUNC()(value), 
+                    '</text:span>')
+        elif ( tagtype == DocBackend.FONTFACE ):
+            return ('<text:span text:style-name=\"FontFace__%s__\">' % 
+                                self.ESCAPE_FUNC()(value), 
+                    '</text:span>')
+        elif ( tagtype == DocBackend.FONTSIZE ):
+            return ('<text:span text:style-name=\"FontSize__%s__\">' % 
+                                self.ESCAPE_FUNC()(value), 
+                    '</text:span>')
+        else: #elif ( tagtype == DocBackend.HIGHLIGHT ):
+            return ('<text:span text:style-name=\"FontHighlight__%s__\">' % 
+                                self.ESCAPE_FUNC()(value), 
+                    '</text:span>')