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lpOD Project: Release 0.8 is online

lpOD -- languages & platforms OpenDocument

lpOD is an open source project whose aims are the definition of a Free Software API implementing the ISO/IEC 26300 standard, and the development, for higher level use cases, in Python, Perl and Ruby languages, of a top-down oriented application programming interface.

This release brings some significant improvements...

- The architecture design is complete.
- The functional lpOD coverage is 90% complete.
- Only Python implementation is available (80% complete), and serves as the
reference implementation
- This release starts providing command-line tools for introspection and
manipulation.
- The documentation is now online http://docs.lpod-project.org
- Cookbooks provide ready-to-use examples of the API for ODT, ODS and ODP
(tables, tocs, notes, images frames, slides transitions, shapes, ... )

The lpOD 0.8 code and documentation are now available for download.

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