ODFDOM is the name of the upcoming free OpenDocument framework sponsored by Sun Microsystems Inc.

It will be the next evolutionary step after AODL and Odf4j. Designed together with their architects with the intent to provide an easy lightwork programming API for the ODF developer community. ODFDOM is meant to be portable to any object-oriented language.

The first pre-version of the Java 5 reference implementation of ODFDOM is planned to become available under LGPL3 in May 2008.

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Lots of interesting things happened these last days, and I was slow to catch up with them. A few of my highlights below:
Rob Weir from IBM talks about the upcoming OpenDocument Format 1.2 and that’s what will shut the mouth of lots of OOXML minions. I’ve had enough of them bragging about the ability to create custom XML schemas, as it goes against the very notion of interoperability.

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