OK, I get it. There is cross-talk between this dev-openoffice list and general-incubator involving two messages there,
1. A general-incubator post from you, replying to a message from Peter Kelley about his DocFormats document-conversion project and bringing Peter's request to the attention of general-incubator, at <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201408.mbox/%3CCAK2iWdTS%2BKUWWZ%2BBOAnsNW4PiE37OLJA%3Dx%2B5az%3DAdAviiS_47A%40mail.gmail.com%3E>. 2. An observation from Andrea that is essentially good wishes. I find it an interesting leap from DocFormats to OpenOffice for tablets and look forward to seeing the incubator proposal. I am definitely interested in the "student proposal, to get a compliance sheet made for products that offer OXML and/or odf" that you mention. Interoperability in interchange among document formats is a driving issue for me. I look forward to more about that. There has been significant effort in this area, although it does not seem to have made much impact and is generally little-known. The OASIS effort on ODF Interoperability and Conformance (OIC TC) folded its tent in November 2013. (On that one, I am an unindicted co-conspirator.) I will see what references I can dig up after I submit updated pre-conference versions of some papers due this weekend, <https://sites.google.com/site/dchanges14/program>. Information about those interop/conversion efforts would also be good backup information for the DChanges 2014 workshop next month. - Dennis PS: Roundtripping between OOXML and HTML is something that Microsoft put considerable effort into. Some found the resulting HTML (pre-HTML5) rather nauseous, but it is remarkably presentation-preserving as far as it goes. It might be informative to look into how well AOO does the same between ODF and [X]HTML as a calibration. One could also look at the Office Web Apps, that manifest OOXML documents via editable web-page interfaces as a descendant. These seem to be tied to the way that some Phone and Tablet Microsoft Office applications are tied to cloud-stored documents. -----Original Message----- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 09:45 To: Dennis Hamilton Cc: dev; jan iversen Subject: Re: DocFormats - Open source OOXML implementation On 16 August 2014 18:38, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > I don't have any skin in this game. > > Yet I am baffled about where this work is going on and what Apache Project > it relates to. Is there an incubator proposal for Apache DocFormats on its > way? > Yes there is a proposal on its way, look at general-incubator approx. the last 3 days. Right now it is not decided who should sponsor this project. [ ... ] The intention is clearly to at least have a close cooperation with these projects. But docFormats aims at a bit more (like e.g. being openoffice on tablets). I am right now working on student proposal, to get a compliance sheet made for products that offer OXML and/or odf. MAybe that would be something you would want to help out with. [ ... ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
