Hi,

Is it possible to draw anything using the generic appendElement() and insertElement() methods of OpenOffice::OODoc::XPath, knowing that the high level API doesn't provide shape-specific ones.

The element name is "draw:rect" and its mandatory attributes are x, y, height and width in the svg namespace.

As an example, the code below draws a rectangle shape with arbitrary SVG position and size values in the first page of a given document. In addition, it fills the rectangle with an arbitrary (light blue) color (provided in hexadecimal #rrggbb format), through a graphic style definition; but as long as the default graphic style of the document is OK, the "draw:style-name" attribute and the corresponding style creation could be omitted. This example assumes $doc is the content of a presentation (odp) or drawing (odg) ODF file. If needed, createStyle is described in the OpenOffice::OODoc::Styles manual page, and getDrawPage in the OpenOffice::OODoc::Text one.

Note that the ODF spec covers many other shapes, including a "custom-shape" type, but some of them requires much more parameters than the rectangle.