Re: Lenya and OpenOffice

I would suggest that you check in the Computerworld example that we 
developed last week.

-Felix


Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> As you might know we were at the OSCOM sprint in Zuerich last
> week. Felix and I worked on the integration of OpenOffice and
> Lenya. This has been made possible due to the fact that OpenOffice
> uses XML as its native file format. IMHO we were quite successful.
> After two days we were able to:
> 
> * drop an OpenOffice document in a webfolder on the desktop
> 
> * from where it was handed to the web server via WebDAV and served
>   back via Lenya and Tomcat.
> 
> * and have it show up in a web browser including the layout of the
>   original document (headings, fonts, etc), tables, etc. all nicely
>   aggregated with the navigation, header and footer of the existing
>   site.
> 
> This setup is extremely flexible. We have used a standard XSLT which
> transforms the OpenOffice content into fairly plain html. Of course
> any other transformation could be applied to suit your particular needs
> 
> This can be used if you like to edit your content on the desktop with
> a familiar desktop application (e.g. for an intranet) or also for
> migration purposes if you have lots of word documents that need to be
> published.
> 
> This setup could perceivably also be used for Microsoft Office 11
> (which also uses XML as a document format). We'll have to see about
> that when we see the XML that is produced by it.
> 
> Attached is a description on how to reproduce this.
> 
> If there is enough interest I will integrate it into Lenya.
> 
> 
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