On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 09:46:45 AM +0100, Kai Sommerfeld
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> The new project makes the connection between OOo and ODF crisp and
> clear, but we do not want every user of the toolkit to become an OOo
> expert.
As Ian already pointed out, the connection has _always_ been crisp and
clear in every press release on either OOo and ODF in the last 2 years
at least. This is not to say that this toolkit is a bad thing, just
that establishing such a connection is very probably the last reason
why it is necessary to create it.
Two other things to keep into account are:
1) as Ian mentioned, in certain situations it would be
counterproductive (PR-wise, not rationally) to make this connection
look even stronger. Several of the efforts against MS OpenXML are
rightly motivated just by the fact that that "standard" is tied
beyond redemption to MS Office. Again, this is not a reason per se
to not do the toolkit, just something to be prepared for.
2) Somebody in this thread mentioned this would be great for server
side processing. Sure, but only in the cases when you really need
to know and manage every bit of the standard. For simpler tasks,
thing like docvert or certain Perl modules will likely remain a
much lighter (better) solution than anything to which one could
trim OOo down to.
Ciao,
Marco
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