Hi Raymond, (cc'ed as apparently you are not subscribed to this list)
Raymond F. Hayes Jr. wrote: > I'd like to take a cut at this project: > > > > 1. Use your XML knowledge > OpenOffice.org uses XML for all of its files. XSLT tools are available to > support non-native XML. If you know XML and XSLT there is much you can do > here. For instance, you can provide an SVG input transformation so > OpenOffice.org can open SVG <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/> files. > > My XML/XSLT is very good. I've been working with it for about 5 years. Is > there a getting started guide for developers? If you are talking about working on XSLT for a particular format: no. In that case I recommend to get in touch with the xml sub project. But working on an import or export filter for OOo using XSLT does't need a lot of internal OOo knowledge, you can concentrate on the xslt file completely. The current OOo version still needs that the xslt file is packed into a jar file in a special way and installed by adding some parameters in the XML filter dialog. Fortunately we nearly finished the development of a new mechanism that allows to install xslt files as a filter extension together with (XML) configuration files. Is it the SVG import you are interested in? AFAIK Thorsten Behrens announced that he wanted to work on SVG import, but perhaps with a different goal. IIRC he wanted to implement a graphics filter, not a document filter, that would enable to embed SVG files into any OOo document. This kind of filters must be implemented in C++ as no infrastructure is available to support XML technology in our Graphics objects. Perhaps this graphics filter might be fine with supporting only an SVG subset ("Tiny SVG"), as probably our Graphics objects don't support more than that anyway. This would leave room for another SVG document filter that imports from SVG to Drawing ODF as much as possible. I hope Thorsten will comment on that. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
