July 2010

Weekly Links #15

July 31, 2010

odf-report – GitHub “Gem for generating .odt files by making strings, images, tables and sections replacements in a previously created .odt file.” tags: ODF My Personal Blog: ODF Become National Format? “What a surprising news. ODF will soon become a mandatory format for all government documents. I have posted this since a year ago and [...]

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ODF 1.2 Word Clouds

July 29, 2010

I’ve been playing around today with a preview build of the ODF Java API ODFDOM 0.9.   One of the capabilities we’re adding is a simple text extraction API. The idea is to have a very simple API, a single function call in fact, that will allow you to extract the plain text from an ODF [...]

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The value of restricting choice

July 27, 2010

The language game Microsoft’s talking points go something like this (summarized in my words): If you adopt ODF instead of OOXML then you “restrict choice”.  Why would you want to do that?  You’re in favor of openness and competition, right?  So naturally, you should favor choice. You can see a hundreds of variations on this [...]

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Weekly Links #14

July 24, 2010

DataNucleus Access Platform – ODF Documents “DataNucleus supports persisting/retrieving objects to/from Open Document Format (ODF) documents (using the datanucleus-odf plugin). Such documents can then be used in applications like OpenOffice and KOffice. It makes use of the ODF Toolkit project.” tags: ODF Producing ODF spreadsheets “So, the remaining question is: How to produce the ODF [...]

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ODF 1.2 Begins Final 60-day Public Review

July 13, 2010

A major milestone was reached for the OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) TC last week.  The latest Committee Draft of ODF 1.2 (CD 05) was sent out for a 60-day public review. As you may recall, ODF 1.2 is a single standard in three parts: Part 1 specifies the core schema, and was send out [...]

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Weekly Links #13

July 10, 2010

Are Standards Organizations Relevant? | Heap Overrun tags: standards Use Open Document Format as the Government standard — HMG – Your Freedom “Establish the Open Document Format as the standard for use in all Government departments rather than continually upgrading to the latest version of Microsoft Office at a cost of many millions of pounds. [...]

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ISO/IEC JTC1 Revises Directives, Addresses OOXML Abuses

July 7, 2010

On July 1st, 2010 a new set of rules (directives) took effect in ISO/IEC JTC1  including new processing and voting rules for JTC1 Fast Track submissions.  If these rules had been in effect back in 2007, OOXML would have died after its initial ballot. Let’s take a look at some of the specific changes that [...]

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