Linked by Christian Paratschek on Wed 16th Nov 2005 19:02 UTC
OpenDocument got a lot of publicity lately. StarOffice 8 and OpenOffice.org 2.0 finally arrived, and all the other makers of office suites (with the notable exception of Microsoft) have started implementing the new standard into their programs. Massachusetts recently decided to use OpenDocument as the standard file format, effectively locking out MS Office as soon as January 1st, 2007. Other countries are on their way to do the same. Also, OpenDocument recently got submitted to become an ISO standard.
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2005-11-17
Some while ago i was thinking about a very evil plan about this topic:
I think the perfect content manager(tm) should store its pages in an as rich as possible form, possibly xml, and now the better/cooler is OpenDocument, and should transform the pages with xsl server-side (obviously with an aggressive caching of the generated documents to not eat too much cpu).
And then when the user access the site, (s)he can specify the preferred format, for example:
-www.ubercoolsite.com/index.html will be the default, normal html page
-www.ubercoolsite.com/index.odt will be opendocument and so on
in this way there will be a consistent way to generate html, opendocument, pdf and tons of different formatted documents, with a wery little effort.