[odf-discuss] ODF-XSLT Project Announcement

[Sander Marechal]

ODF-XSLT Project Announcement
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Lone Wolves is happy to announce the ODF-XSLT project [1]. The ODF-XSLT 
Document Generator is a library written in PHP 5 that brings the full 
power of XSLT to your OpenDocument files. It enables you to use ODF 
files as if they were plain XSLT templates. It also includes a few extra 
parsing options that allow you to edit the XSLT parts of these ODF from 
within your favourite office suite. ODF-XSLT is developed by Tribal 
Internet Marketing [2] and is released by Lone Wolves as Free Software 
under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

[1] http://www.jejik.com/odf-xslt/
[2] http://www.tribal-im.com/

The first release of ODF-XSLT is odf-xslt-0.4 and can be downloaded from 
our download section [3], together with a nightly snapshot of the 
subversion trunk. You can also check out the latest version directly 
from our subversion repository [4]. The manual [5] and API documentation 
[6] are available from the project website.

[3] http://www.jejik.com/odf-xslt/download/
[4] http://svn.jejik.com/
[5] http://www.jejik.com/odf-xslt/manual/
[6] http://www.jejik.com/api/odf-xslt/

Features
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* Based on the industry standard (ISO/IEC 26300) OpenDocument format.
* Multiple document types supported (text, spreadsheet, etcetera).
* Full XSLT support. Since XSLT is Turing-complete, anything is possible 
(in theory).
* Templates can be edited from within your office suite, such as 
OpenOffice.org or KOffice 2.
* Easily extensible by hooking in pre- and postprocessors.

Requirements
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* PHP 5.2 or later
* PHP CLI for the commandline utility
* libxslt and the PHP XSL extension
* zlib and the PHP Zip extension

Acknowledgments
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Many thanks to Heini van Bergen from Tribal Internet Marketing for 
allowing ODF-XSLT to be released as Free Software. Also thanks to Mirko 
Nasato who's JODReports [7] software was a big inspiratrion for ODF-XSLT.

[7] http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodreports

About Lone Wolves
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Stichting Lone Wolves is a small not-for-profit development company 
based in The Netherlands. We create websites for small to medium sized 
businesses and use the profits to fund our free software projects such 
as gnome-hearts and ODF-XSLT.

About Tribal Internet Marketing
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Tribal was established in 1999 and since then started offering 
full-service internet solutions. Tribal Internet Marketing (IM) is, in 
conjunction with Tribal Internet Solutions (IS), a division of Tribal BV 
and is one of the top specialized search engine marketing agencies in 
the Netherlands.