Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> Ahem, yes, I know, developers in general seem not to care about the  
> edu and research market; it seems the only organization that has  
> actually *delivered* decent citation support is MS ;-)

Well, it's not that we don't care, but as long as we have to work on the
OOXML filter, the usability problems in Writer and also some other long
outstanding RFEs adding 3rd party bibliography support can't be a high
priority. I hope you understand that. I think it's interesting enough to
evaluate it and see how it fits into the ODF stuff we have planned to do
in the near future.

> 
> So the question is how we can best make this happen given the  
> resource constraints all around?
> 
> I really don't want to get in the middle of some OOo vs. KOffice  
> conflict here. 
I don't see that conflict. Developers just love to discuss some nasty
details at times. :-)

> Any suggestions on how best to move this along  
> productively? My colleague David Wilson has posted the requirements  
> he sees (though I've had time to look at them in depth), and I've  
> noted that ZOOM may well provide a ready made API complete with  
> freely available code.

Once we have done the ODF stuff for bibliography and get it implemented
into OOo I'm open for starting with the SOAP interface as shown in the
Word Add-In. Do you think that it fits into the way we want to describe
bibliographic data in ODF?

Ciao,
Mathias

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