Legislative Open Document Format (LODF) "History has shown over and over again that legislative data standards must be flexible in order to succeed. LODF (Legislative Open Document Format) is the first legislative data standard initiative that fully … [Continue reading] about Weekly Links #17
How to Crush Dissent

While in Berlin for the LinuxTag 2010 conference a couple of months ago, I took the opportunity for a 8-mile long meandering walk across the city, from Warschauer Strasse and the East Side Gallery to Wittenbergplatz and KaDeWe, taking in the various … [Continue reading] about How to Crush Dissent
Weekly Links #16
VML is baack... - Aspose.Words Product Family - Blogs "But the interesting thing that we came across is that ISO 29500 allows extensions and Microsoft did not waste any time by implementing something that is known as [MS-ODRAWXML]: Office Drawing … [Continue reading] about Weekly Links #16
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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 … [Continue reading] about Weekly Links #15
ODF 1.2 Word Clouds

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 … [Continue reading] about ODF 1.2 Word Clouds