Comments on: The ODF Validation Service http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/odf-validation-service.html Thinking the unthinkable, pondering the imponderable, effing the ineffable and scruting the inscrutable Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:51:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daniel http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/odf-validation-service.html#comment-660 Daniel Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:19:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/the-odf-validation-service.html#comment-660 Hi Rob. I just saw your post. I talked to Cyclone3 and we just put together a privacy policy. Please drop me an email if we missed anything.<br/><br/>http://opendocumentfellowship.org/validator Hi Rob. I just saw your post. I talked to Cyclone3 and we just put together a privacy policy. Please drop me an email if we missed anything.

http://opendocumentfellowship.org/validator

]]> By: Rob http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/odf-validation-service.html#comment-655 Rob Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:57:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/the-odf-validation-service.html#comment-655 You could ask the same question about the W3C's HTML/XHTML/CSS validators. But they seem to get a lot of use. You don't need to be an HTML editor vendor to have a need for validating HTML.<br/><br/>If you look around the site I linked to you can see that this is more than just schema validation. For example, ODF specifies other constraints, such as referential integrity constraints between the manifest and content XML's, that are not expressible in RELAX NG. You could ask the same question about the W3C’s HTML/XHTML/CSS validators. But they seem to get a lot of use. You don’t need to be an HTML editor vendor to have a need for validating HTML.

If you look around the site I linked to you can see that this is more than just schema validation. For example, ODF specifies other constraints, such as referential integrity constraints between the manifest and content XML’s, that are not expressible in RELAX NG.

]]> By: The Wraith http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/odf-validation-service.html#comment-654 The Wraith Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:26:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/the-odf-validation-service.html#comment-654 Why would anyone except for an ODF implementor validate ODF files on line ?<br/><br/>An implementor seem more likely likely to directly use the ODF XML schema files for validating his created documents.<br/>What does this tool add to ordinary schema validation ? Why would anyone except for an ODF implementor validate ODF files on line ?

An implementor seem more likely likely to directly use the ODF XML schema files for validating his created documents.
What does this tool add to ordinary schema validation ?

]]> By: D. http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/odf-validation-service.html#comment-650 D. Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:32:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/the-odf-validation-service.html#comment-650 Not a bad idea. I know I wrote a C# library for parsing in ODF files, mainly so I could find all the paragraphs of a certain style ("Command"), process them and substituted the results of the internal program with that paragraph. It ended up making a nice little toolchain for my documents, more so when I could build arbitrary tables and styles based on a database.<br/><br/>That and a little tool for converting spreadsheet sheets into tab-delm files.<br/><br/>One reason I love ODF is that it is such a nice clean interface, fairly easy to understand, and doesn't really have excess cruft of history. Not a bad idea. I know I wrote a C# library for parsing in ODF files, mainly so I could find all the paragraphs of a certain style (“Command”), process them and substituted the results of the internal program with that paragraph. It ended up making a nice little toolchain for my documents, more so when I could build arbitrary tables and styles based on a database.

That and a little tool for converting spreadsheet sheets into tab-delm files.

One reason I love ODF is that it is such a nice clean interface, fairly easy to understand, and doesn’t really have excess cruft of history.

]]> By: orcmid http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/odf-validation-service.html#comment-649 orcmid Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:58:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/03/the-odf-validation-service.html#comment-649 Interesting thoughts.<br/><br/>The validator looks like a nice project and the ODF Tools will be welcome. It looks like these can only get richer, as you surmise. Interesting thoughts.

The validator looks like a nice project and the ODF Tools will be welcome. It looks like these can only get richer, as you surmise.

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