[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: OpenXml in ABL

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Yes, use an external solution. In general OpenEdge ABL doesn't do a great job with XML, let alone Office formats. You could interact with a dll or out-of-process code (via SOAP or REST). On Windows there is something in OpenEdge ABL called the "CLR bridge" that would allow you to interact with a .Net-framework-appdomain within the same process as your ABL code. You can even load arbitrary .Net assemblies (eg. one of your creation). Before using any .Net interface you would want to ensure that the .Net interface is relatively simple (no generics, delegates, events, etc).

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