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

[Chris Puttick]

And would facilitate a light weight ODF viewer?

Chris

On 15/05/07, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
> 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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