[odf-discuss] KOffice devs plan a shared odf lib

[Thomas Zander]

Last weekend there was an ODF developer sprint for KDE developers. This, 
unsurprisingly, existed for about 80% of KOffice developers but other 
devs were also interrested in reading/writing ODF.

One of the main results of the meeting is that the devs have stated a plan 
and (rough) timeline for creating a shared-library that will allow other 
applications to use ODF more easily.

After KDE4.0 as well as KOffice2.0 are released the KOffice developers 
plan to create a new source repository in the KDE svn which will contain 
code for handling the odf-container (the zip) and XML tools specifically 
made for ODF to allow easy creation and parsing of ODF documents.

There are various other aspects to this library that are explained better 
here;
http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice-devel&m=117900826724075&w=2

Note that this library does not depend on KOffice being installed, which 
we expect will have the effect of having ODF loading/saving support in 
many unexpected places in KDE applications.

Around the time we release this library KDE is expected to be supported on 
all major (and many minor) platforms.

Cheers!
-- 
Thomas Zander
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