I hope someone from one of the OOo projects might answer your question as to whether anyone has worked on this already. Last time I heard it was having to give way to the high priority of the OOXML/ODF filters, etc.
I do see that the ODF -> XHTML is indeed an XSLT transformation - there are XSLT stylesheets for it in the CVS repository at http://framework.openoffice.org/source/browse/framework/filter/source/xslt/export/xhtml/ I notice too my own question is easily answered - it is xalan used for the XSLT. Adding XForms conversion does look more like months than weeks to me though. Probably best to leave it to the OOo developers to do something like that. It might be feasible to try something with a simpler ODF/XForms to XHTML/XForms XSLT 'XML Filter' and get a lot done in just weeks if you don't mind not preserving the spacial layout (e.g. just keep the order in which the controls appear on the XForm without worrying about the positions - and use some CSS 3 to make it look decent). I'm tempted to try it just for myself but I wouldn't want to try more than that or commit to publishing it. Hopefully it will get taken up properly by someone at some time now that the main OOXML/ODF filter work is out of the door. I would hope some big SO customers would like it done, government ones perhaps. :-) Regards Stephen Green On 07/10/2007, Gildor Oronar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks very much for your update. As I guess from the info: nobody has > done it before or done it but didn't publish it yet. > > Is current ODF->XHTML translation done with XSLT? In which case the > positioning problem also exist. If so, modifying this very XSLT seems to > be the shortest cut. > > I am completely dump in regarding to ODF/XForms (I *thought* ODF/XForms -> > XHTML/XForms exists already because I thought I met a common problem). I > didn't ready ODF specs; as I cannot get enough knowledge within short > time, can I ask for estimation on how much work there is left to finish > this ODF/XForms -> XHTML/XForms tramsform? Is it on weeks level or months > level? > > Thanks a lot! > > On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:51:18 +0800, Stephen Green > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Gildor > > > > I would think the direction from ODF/XForms to XHTML/XForms is quite > > doable > > because the ODF supports a limited subset of XForms (model, bindings, > > lists and > > submissions). Not so easy to have XHTML/XForms to ODF/XForms of course. > > The challenge might be with the positioning of the form controls in the > > XHTML > > equivalent of the ODF which after all would be the main asset of using > > OOo as > > a WYSIWIG XForms editor. > > > > I've been trying to use the XSLT filter facility for OOo recently for > > the first time in > > earnest and have found some problems which I'm concerned might be due to > > XSLT limitations and behaviors in the OOo XSLT engine. Anyone know which > > engine is used and know of any such peculiarities, by the way? > > > > I truly hope you get on well in trying such a conversion. > > > > Best regards > > > > Stephen Green > > > > On 07/10/2007, Gildor Oronar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear all > >> > >> Is it possible to use the XForms documents created in OOO (host language > >> is probably ODF) in X-smiles? If not, is it difficult to write some XSLT > >> to transfer host language from ODF to XHTML so that can be used in > >> X-smiles? Or any other XForm player. > >> > >> OOO is the best (?) WYSIWYG XForms designer available and it would be a > >> pity if XForms designed in it can only be used with XForms-enabled ODF > >> reader (e.g. ooo itself). > >> > >> I don't know how OOO export-as-xhtml works, is it an complex XSL sheet > >> behind it? Then probably it's possible to adjust XSLT in it to make it > >> happen. > >> > >> -- > >> Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Stephen Green Partner SystML, http://www.systml.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 117 9541606 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+22:37 .. and voice --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
