Re: What is GNOME office?

["Dom Lachowicz" <cinamod hotmail com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> I would be really interested on feedback on this especially the generic
> package proposal.
> Also did you tried to compare your XML format and OpenOffice one, are the
> structure fundamentally different or do using XSLT to transform from one
> format to the other seems doable ?

I was planning on looking at the OpenOffice DTDs/Specs/etc over the weekend. 
There are like 20 DTDs though and amount to about 300 pages of information 
(as opposed to ~120 for RTF). Granted, they do cover every detail under the 
sun for WPs, SpreadSheets, etc... so the wordiness is warranted. Hopefully 
there are some sample refrence documents and maybe a screenshot or two of 
the intended output. Perhaps I'll need to install OpenOffice to test 
thoroughly.

I wasn't planning on using XSLT to convert between formats. This may or may 
not be doable with XSLT in its current state, but I'll know that for sure 
after this weekend (i.e. the doc may need some complex transformations to 
get from OO->ABW that XSLT can't yet handle). For now, I was planning on 
just subclassing our generic XML importer class to handle as many OO 
tags/features as possible like our existing 5 or so XML importers currently 
do. It shouldn't involve too much code that way and doesn't involve an 
intermediate conversion step (we treat our ABW importer/exporter as just 
another importer/exporter that "happens" to have a very clean mapping to our 
internal structure). Then comes the OO exporter, which should be done at 
about the same time.

Dom
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