From: william.lachance@sympatico.ca
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 21:51:03 EDT
> On 2003.04.13 16:00 M. Fioretti wrote:
> >
> > The fact that the end user can say once and for all his favourite
> > default saving format, and that the OASIS one is selectable, is great.
>
> Keep in mind, OASIS is probably still in import, as in read, stage.
> It will be time before both import and export, read and write, are both
> available.
> OASIS is very complex and large. The specifications for it cover 200+ pages!
Eric, this just isn't true. One: we _do_ export OpenOffice.org (only text and span properties for now) . Two: the OpenOffice.org format is _not_ complex. Yes, the specification is contained in a large document (it's kind of pedantic in places), but the subset that AbiWord needs to support is not that big. You can get most of what you need simply by saving OpenOffice.org documents with a feature of interest and examining the XML output.
To re-iterate: working on the OpenOffice.org filters is a great way to start contributing to AbiWord. It's easy and your efforts should pay off very quickly. Look at the module abiword-plugins/wp/impexp/OpenWriter/ if you're interested.
Cheers,
William Lachance
william.lachance@sympatico.ca
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