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Donnerstag Oktober 25, 2007

OpenOffice.org 2.3 Screenshots by eWeek
My colleague Chhandomay just made me aware of the "eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: OpenOffice.org 2.3". Nice screenshots showing the new OpenOffice.org 2.3 features!
( Okt 25 2007, 05:31:59 AM CEST ) Permalink

Article about XQuery and ODF
Here is an interesting article that talks about how the XQuery technology can be used together with ODF files. Here is a quote:
"In ODF the content of your office document is stored in the content.xml document. Availble here here is the example for the table in Figure 3.
... This query constructs an HTML document with all tables from the ODF text document, usedcars.odt. Figure 4 is an example of the result, usedcars.html.
... And by simply changing the container document you want to access, you can use the same function to query your ODF spreadsheet, usedcars.ods. Look similar?"
( Okt 25 2007, 04:53:07 AM CEST ) Permalink

ODF becomes government standard in South Africa
I just came across this:
"Open Document format (ODF) yesterday became an official standard for South African government communications. The ODF standard is included in the government's Mininimum Interoperability Standards for Information Systems in government (MIOS) released yesterday."
Very cool news! The full article can be found here.
( Okt 25 2007, 04:47:02 AM CEST ) Permalink