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Svante Schubert

ODFDOM - the new opensourced multi-tiered API for the ISO OpenDocument Format

Blog entry: Submitted by Svante Schubert on Fri, 2008-04-25 13:23.

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.

Extract and Parse ODF Files with Python

Resource: Submitted by carolgeyer on Mon, 2008-04-14 12:29. Last updated on Mon, 2008-04-14 12:30.

This Linux Journal article by Kamran Husain highlights the basic structure of ODF files, and some internals of the underlying XML files and shows how to use Python to read the contents to perform a simple search for keywords. The code also can be the basis for more advanced operations. In the spirit of openness, open-source software is used to read the ODF files, which in this case are Python and the OpenOffice.org package.

IBM Lotus Symphony Overview

Resource: Submitted by dpharbison on Wed, 2008-01-30 19:33.

This overview of Lotus Symphony was delivered at the annual Lotusphere event in Orlando, Florida, January 20 - 24, 2008. Details regarding the new beta 4 release with respect to programmability are provided in addition to product roadmap objectives.

Tutorial: Expand the editing capabilities of OpenOffice with XSLT

Resource: Submitted by carolgeyer on Wed, 2007-10-10 12:37.

This IBM Developerworks tutorial from Jonathan Levin, shows you how to use OpenOffice's import/export filters
to open your XML data as though it's just a plain document. From there,
users can edit the document much more naturally and then save it back
to its native format. You can also use this feature to easily turn your
documents into XML data.

Tech brief: OpenDocument Format

Resource: Submitted by carolgeyer on Tue, 2007-10-02 12:49.

This article by Erwin Tenhumberg of Sun Microsystems provides a brief introduction to OpenDocument, its history, benefits of use, and available tools.