Peter Kelly created COR-38:
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Summary: Create ODF Text filter
Key: COR-38
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COR-38
Project: Corinthia
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: DocFormats - ODF filter
Reporter: Peter Kelly
Along with OOXML (specifically .docx), ODF (specifically .odt) is an important
format for DocFormats to support. Implementation of this filter will involve
conversion to and from HTML. The resulting HTML can subsequently be used with
the OOXML filter (or others), which will enable us to convert ODF to and from
different file formats, with HTML as an intermediary step.
I've specifically mentioned ODF Text documents (word processing documents) for
this issue, as this is what DocFormats is currently designed around; support
for spreadsheets and presentations are separate issues with a different set of
tasks/requirements.
The existing (but poorly documented) Word filter provides a design that could
be readily adapted to use in ODF. However, the fact that change detection and
updating are intertwined in the existing Word filter means that this would have
to be replicated for the ODF filter as well. A possible alternative to simply
replicating the existing design would be to have change detection done entirely
separately, and modify the interface for both filters to accept a list of
changes to apply, rather than an updated HTML document.
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