Re: OpenDocument status

Hi Christian, I have (I believe) enhanced the functionality of OpenDocument, and this is partly working: OpenDocument should be able to open a ODT document and write back to it only the parts which have been modified - leaving the rest of the document intact. The idea behind it: act as defensively as possible. I have the code in Subversion locally in our office, I should upload it or hand it out for review, but there is a main problem that I still need to fix related to the encoding used by the XML documents. As soon as this is working the "defensive mode" would allow opening an existing document and apply small modifications to it with low risk of corrupting the file or losing data. At the moment I need to finish other work, however, (Joomla! component development) and I hope I can get back to OpenDocument in about 1.5 to 2 weeks time. I'd be happy to share my changes and also support everyone willing to fix the remaining problems fast, given someone willing to do so. Any suggestions how to proceed? Cheers, Peter P.S.: For Spreadsheet there is Apache POI pretty stable (at least for the non-XML-based formats), okay this is Java not PHP. (Unfortunately it is still experimental for text docs!) I'd use that if you are just looking for a _solution_! 2009/6/8 Christian Weiske <cweiske@cweiske.de>: > Hi, > > > Today while starting to write docs for the OpenDocument package, I saw > that it can do nearly nothing. There is not visible planned support for > document types other than text docs, no proper docblocks, no support > for lists, images, tables etc. > > Is there activity going on that package? If not, I'd take over, > refactor it a bit to support multiple doc types and begin to implement > spreadsheet functionality - to get people away from > spreadsheet_excel_writer. > > Does anyone want to jump onto the boat with me? >