[odf-discuss] ODF support -- Apache Cocoon, Forrest, Lenya, Daisy

[marbux]

Some may recall that over a year ago, I asked whether anyone knew what
was happening in regard to ODF, Apache Cocoon, and apps based on
Cocoon. The answer at that time was that Cocoon did not yet support
ODF but that it would be fairly trivial to add that support. It seems
that now the support is there, but to what extent is not clear and it
certainly is not advertised on the relevant apps' web pages. Cocoon is
an important tool for building an SOA and for gluing web apps
together. See e.g., the Cocoon features page.
<http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/features.html>.

Does anyone have any contacts within the Apache organization that
might help me run down exactly what ODF support is available in Cocoon
and in apps built atop Cocoon such as Lenya, Forrest, and Daisy?

We have the Cocoon-based Apache Lenya in our apps list. But I was
looking around a bit today to see if other Cocoon-based tools might
have added ODF support too. I ran across this email,
<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/forrest-dev/200604.mbox/%3C058BB33D-8D2B-49AB-9032-D49621D6573D@mac.com%3E>.
It indicates that ODT support has been added to both Cocoon itself and
Apache Forrest.  See also
<http://marc.info/?l=xml-cocoon-users&m=112808673625191&w=2> ("I will
start another thread about putting these two classes back into Cocoon,
because it seems to me they are very useful and I guess a lot of
people would like to render OpenDocument(s) through Cocoon"). And if
ODF has made its way into Cocoon, it should also be present in another
Cocoon-based app, the Daisy wiki, which uses a WYSIWYG editor.
<http://cocoondev.org/daisy>. But the Daisy suggested summer student
projects include a proposal for extending ODF support.
<http://cocoondev.org/daisyscratchpad/380-cd>.

And see the bottom of this web page,
<http://librarycog.uwindsor.ca:8087/artblog/librarycog/indexcat>:

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This document was created in OpenOffice and is served directly on the
web using Cocoon's nifty Zip support and the elegant and sensible XML
syntax of OpenDocument. The XSLT to make this happen has been modified
from the original work by Svante Schubert and has been shared with the
Lenya project.

With OpenOffice and Cocoon, OpenDocument content can live directly on
the web, a prospect much more audacious in concept than execution. Add
in WebDAV support, and the barriers between the desktop and the Web
start to blur, and the options for repurposing content achieve megaton
levels. Regardless of one's feeling about office productivity tools,
libraries have a vested interest in supporting OpenDocument for
long-term preservation and access.

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I would like to get to the bottom of these issues. If Cocoon is now
doing a good job of reading and writing ODT, albeit the writes may be
via WebDAV and OOo, then ODF is a much more viable file format in the
enterprise market.  I'd appreciate any contact information folks might
be able to provide and will try to persuade the Cocoon developers to
get their web site updated in regard to ODF support.

Best regards,

Marbux