Sandro has written a tutorial [1] on OpenOffice with examples and discussion of the DocBook export filter. In general, he takes a look at OpenOffice Writer and its capabilities to serve as a WYSIWYG editor for DocBook XML.
“The mission of the XUpdate Working Group is to provide open and flexible update facilities to modify data in XML documents. Doing so it is not important where the documents come from. It can be real documents or virtual documents retrieved from XML databases.” [1]
The XUpdate language is used by Xindice [2], the XML database of the Apache project.
[1] http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate/
[2] http://xml.apache.org/xindice/
“XMLdiff is a python tool that figures out the differences between two similar XML files, in the same way the diff utility does it for text files. It was developed for the NARVAL project and should also be used as a library. It can work either with XML files or DOM trees.” [1]
Cory Doctorow identifies [1] the following problems when it comes to metadata:
* people lie
* people are lazy
* people are stupid
* people are lousy observers of their own behaviors
* schemas aren’t neutral
* metrics influence results
* there’s more than one way to describe something
via blog.bitflux.ch
Brian Aker from Slashdot announced [1] his new myxml User Defined Functions (UDF) for MySQL in the MySQL general mailinglist.
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mysql&m=104993600306514&w=2
OpenOffice [1] 1.1 beta now supports DocBook [2] Import/Export as indicated by the feature list [3].
[1] http://www.openoffice.org
[2] http://www.docbook.org/
[3] http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta/features.html
1dok.org[1] works on an open standard for free and unimpeded exchange of electronic documents via internet.
In case you haven’t already heard: The OASIS standardization organization founded a TC to create an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications.[1]
[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office
“This year’s upcoming debut of Microsoft Office 11 will mark the start of a long process of education and adaptation. [...] So here we’ll explore how existing Office documents can benefit from the new features, how developers will prepare XML-aware Office templates, and how users will apply them to create and analyze XML data.”
http://infoworld.com/article/03/02/21/08plofficexml_1.html?s=tc
A XSLT stylesheet is available which renders OAI XML output to HTML. It is intended to be used by browsers that support XSLT. Tim Brody, the developer, put it online at http://celestial.eprints.org/stylesheets/celestial.xsl.
Sandro Groganz is the founder of InitMarketing, the open source marketing company. Prior to founding InitMarketing, he was the VP Marketing at Mindquarry, an open source startup financed by Hasso Plattner Ventures, and the VP Communication at eZ Systems, creator of the open source content management system eZ Publish.
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