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Rob Weir updated ODFTOOLKIT-308:
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Description:
GNU/Linux, and UNIX before then has shown the great power of a text processing
via simple command line tools, combined with operating facilities for piping
and redirection. This filter-baed text processing is what makes shell
programming so powerful. But it only works well for text documents. But what
about more complex, WYSIWYG documents, spreadsheets, word processors, with more
complex formats, often not text based at all? The tool set becomes far weaker.
The Apache ODF Toolkit is a Java API that gives a high level view of a
document, and enables programmatic manipulation of a document. We have
functions for doing things like search & replace. There is a lot you can do
using the ODF Toolkit. But it still requires Java programming, and that limits
its reach to professional programmers.
What if we could write, using the ODF Toolkit, a set of command line utilities
that made it easy to do both simple and complex text manipulation tasks form a
command line, things like:
1) Concatenate documents
2) Replace slide 3 in presentation A with slide 3 from presentation B
3) Apply the styles of document A to all documents in the current directory
4) Find all occurances of "sausages" in the given document and add a hyperlink
to sausages.com
and so on.
Clearly analogs of cat, grep, diff and sed are obvious ones. Maybe something
awk-like that works with spreadsheets? No need to be slavish to the original
tools, but create something of similar power, but which operate on ODF
documents. For example, an alternative solution might be to write a new shell
processor that has native commands for ODF document manipulation.
Assignee: Rob Weir (was: Devin Han)
Labels: gsoc2012 mentor (was: mentor)
> GSoC: ODF Command Line Tools
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> Key: ODFTOOLKIT-308
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-308
> Project: ODF Toolkit
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Rob Weir
> Assignee: Rob Weir
> Labels: gsoc2012, mentor
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> GNU/Linux, and UNIX before then has shown the great power of a text
> processing via simple command line tools, combined with operating facilities
> for piping and redirection. This filter-baed text processing is what makes
> shell programming so powerful. But it only works well for text documents.
> But what about more complex, WYSIWYG documents, spreadsheets, word
> processors, with more complex formats, often not text based at all? The tool
> set becomes far weaker.
> The Apache ODF Toolkit is a Java API that gives a high level view of a
> document, and enables programmatic manipulation of a document. We have
> functions for doing things like search & replace. There is a lot you can do
> using the ODF Toolkit. But it still requires Java programming, and that
> limits its reach to professional programmers.
> What if we could write, using the ODF Toolkit, a set of command line
> utilities that made it easy to do both simple and complex text manipulation
> tasks form a command line, things like:
> 1) Concatenate documents
> 2) Replace slide 3 in presentation A with slide 3 from presentation B
> 3) Apply the styles of document A to all documents in the current directory
> 4) Find all occurances of "sausages" in the given document and add a
> hyperlink to sausages.com
> and so on.
> Clearly analogs of cat, grep, diff and sed are obvious ones. Maybe something
> awk-like that works with spreadsheets? No need to be slavish to the original
> tools, but create something of similar power, but which operate on ODF
> documents. For example, an alternative solution might be to write a new
> shell processor that has native commands for ODF document manipulation.
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