Hello,

I'm a bit new in OOo development. My project consists in creating a kind of "framework" to import / edit / export adapted documents for visually impaired people using OOo. The file format we use is XML dtbook (see http://www.loc.gov/nls/z3986/v100/), a specific DTD to describe documents.

So I want first to create import and export filters for this format. I'd like to use XSLT because it's a language I know well and I think the filters will be easier to maintain and extend. We also already have different XSLT for this document type. I also would like to develop in Java and reuse my filters as a command line tool if it is possible. The second step of this project is to create macros to guide users in creating well structured adapted documents. This work will be part of the OpenAIP (Open Accessible Information Processing) sourceforge project we are currently setting up.

So my question: I have seen that there are at least 2 different approaches to integrate filters in OOo:
- using the OOo SDK,
- using xmerge,
And it seems that both are used, which one should I prefer ?

I had a look to writer2latex, which uses xmerge. But I was surprised to note that it actually relies on a patched version of xmerge. In addition, its author says in his roadmap that he considers giving up xmerge (to fix some problems and install writer2latex as an uno package). It make me wonder if xmerger is still my solution ...

Thanks to help me to make the best choice.

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Benoit Guillon
Software designer
BrailleNet Association
Paris, France


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