[plug] [not Linux] Article: Thinking XML: The open office file format

[Jacqueline McNally]

For those of you that are working with XML or interested in OpenOffice.org, 
you may find this interesting:

An XML format for front office documents
Uche Ogbuji, Principal Consultant, Fourthought, Inc.
January 2003

"OpenOffice.org is a mature, open source, front office applications suite 
with the advantage of a saved file format based on an open XML DTD. This 
gives users and developers an extraordinary amount of flexibility and power 
in dealing with work produced in OpenOffice.org. In this article, Uche 
Ogbuji introduces the OpenOffice file format and explains its advantages."

[snip]

"In this column, I've provided a sketch of the OpenOffice text file format, 
but the project does not just toss out a text format and leave it at that. 
OpenOffice provides a rich toolkit for integrating XML tools, and there is 
a growing body of third-party tools as well. These include SAX filters, 
XSLT plug-ins, and even low-level Java APIs. Developers from the community 
have already used these facilities to augment OpenOffice with the ability 
to load and save Docbook, HTML, TeX, plain text, and the document formats 
used by PalmOS and PocketPC."

See: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think15/

Jacqueline McNally
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/users/zenryaku/

Community Contact, Australia/New Zealand
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project
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