I guess this is going to be one of the most *important*/*interesting *components similar to Locale. We look forward to seeing this in the incubator.
Thanks for the initiative... On 12/18/06, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I've been thinking for a while now to see if there are people interested in adding support for Office 2007 documents to framework. Thanks to the new format being XML-based and apparently an open-standard it should be much easier to pull-off than the previous binary Office formats. It's also pretty useful that Microsoft made available a compatibility plug-in for Office 2003 (http://tinyurl.com/y4eeye) which allows it to load the new XML-based format. Recently Maarten (cc'ed) posted some code which refers to some work he did to create some basic Office 2007 Excel spreadsheet support. This reminded me of my interest in working on this subject. Judging by the amount of work Alex has put into Zend_Pdf I must say that this will definitely not be a small trivial amount of work. The Office 2007 formats are huge, and even if we limit what we support (like we did with PDF), it will still be a large amount of work and will probably require several contributors and a good sense for making decisions of what we should support and what not (the latter usually being the hard part :) If any of you are interested, I suggest to join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (please don't respond to fw-general@) so that we can try and see whether there's enough interest and enough people willing to contribute to making this happen. Let's start the discussion only on Tuesday so that interested developers have a chance to join the mailing list prior to that. Andi