ODF Integration

The Open Document Format is gaining much attention and a growing momentum in the (non Microsoft part of the) industry.  Of course, by virtue of the integrated Apache Lucene, we are already properly indexing these files, but more could be done.
With the 2.x release of OpenOffice as the de facto open reference implementation there is also somewhat of a oss-project-bridge-crossing opportunity in seeking to implement more ODF support into Daisy.

The non limiting list of various ways to integrate looks like this:

• generation of ODF as an alternative to PDF for each document in the repository
• ODF generating "publication type" for the daisy-books
• import of ODF documents, converting them into wiki-editable documents
• round-trip editing through open-office of these documents (which is not unlike the detachment idea in the end)

If you are interested in this project, you should:

• be ready to get deep into the ODF XML specification and work out how things could get mapped onto Daisy documents
• be proficient in XSLT and or Java/SAX to code the optimal conversions

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