[odf-discuss] Sam Hiser on the Clever Age plugin

[Daniel Carrera]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 11:16 -0800, marbux wrote:
> <http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/02/translator_is_f.html>
> 
> Sam is with the OpenDocument Foundation.

Comments on Sam's blog:

* The Clever Age translator indeed will never be perfect unless they
decide to extend ODF in the same way that the Foundation did, in which
case, its fidelity will be just as good.

* XSLT is only one step in the Clever Age plugin, not the whole thing.
Not that it matters. We'll just see how it fares in real life. I've
heard from someone who tested it a fair bit (not Alex btw). He told me
that conversion OXML->ODF was good, except for frames.

* Given that it's rather slow, I don't imagine it's useful as a plugin.
It would be more useful as a server-side tool (e.g. for converting all
mail attachments to ODF).

Best,
Daniel.
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