Re: [dev] Proposal of new project for UOF

Hi Li Heng,

this is indeed good news. I'm sure, that will make OOo even more 
successful, especially in the Chinese market, of course. :-)

Best regards,
Peter

LiHeng wrote:
> Hi ALL,
> 
>     UOF is a Chinese document format developed by Chinese
> government and all elements of UOF with Chinese tag-name and it is
> updated frequently in current period, a lots of new feature would be add
> into this standard. To launch a separate project of UOF may focus on
> special features of China and Chinese market, and all of office software
> provider who based on OpenOffice.org in China can maintain only one
> project of UOF interoperability for OpenOffice.org, and we can get the
> best interoperability of UOF in China.
>     *There are 2 products, RedOffice&   CS2C, based OpenOffice.org
> have supported UOF format.
>     *And IBM Symphony has supported UOF too.
>     *Several universities are also focus on UOF, OOXML and ODF
> converters.
> 
> Proposal of UOF Interoperability Project
> Summary
>     UOF is a Chinese developed open standard for 'office'
> applications. It includes word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet
> modules, and is made up of GUI, API, and format specifications. The
> document format described uses XML contained in a compressed file
> container.  This project improve the interoperability of UOF, include
> all features, GUI and API and solve the problems in Chinese office
> application system.
>     UOF is not in same structure of ODF, some features(such as
> Media Object and Conditional format of Spreadsheet ) can not transform
> well only with XSLT, so we need to develop a set of extensions to
> transform them into a friendly structure first. For UOF API we must bind
> a bundle of interfaces and services on OpenOffice.org in order to
> OpenOffice.org can be integrated into office system with UOF API.
> The mission of this project is improving the interoperability of
> UOF.We're going in for transforming the format between UOF and ODF with
> XSLT.There's an UOF filter including an extension to solve some
> very important problems with Calc and OLE.
> 
> Scope
> 1.To develop and maintain the filters for every UOF version. Include
> XSLT template and a set extensions.
> 2.To develop and maintain all IDL and services of  UOF APIs
> 3.To Implement the Chinese special features of UOF in OpenOffice.org
> 4.To collect the suggestions on UOF from community and participate in
> editing of UOF
> 
>     We will open all XSLT and filter(now as a extension) source
> code we have done. And to work on new version of UOF with all contributors.
>     Now we are working on transforming the format between UOF2.0
> and ODF with XSLT stylesheet, and the new features about media object.
>     UOF2.0 is multiple documents construction and will be a kind of
> compression format. Each document is a XML file using  Chinese tags.  We
> should convert all documents into a FlatXML which could present all tags
> of different documents,and then convert the FlatXML file into ODF with
> XSLT stylesheet. And in the other conversion direction ,firstly,ODF will
> be converted into multiple documents with XSLT stylesheet,and then the
> multiple documents will be packed into UOF2.0 format.
> 
> Best regards!