lpOD 0.9.0 has just been released, together with its documentation. You can download lpOD 0.9 here.

Statistics: from v0.8 to v0.9.0

Since its beginning the lpOD project has provided regular snapshots of important milestones. Today we are happy to open the access to our Git repository! It is now possible for anyone to check out our developments live.

The repository is available here.

lpOD 0.8 has just been released, together with its documentation. You can download lpOD 0.8 here.

lpOD -- languages & platforms OpenDocument.
Definition of a Free Software API implementing the ISO/IEC 26300 standard.
Development, for higher level use cases, in Python, Perl and Ruby languages.
of a top-down oriented API.

• The architecture design is complete.
• The functional lpOD coverage is 90% complete.
• Only Python implementation is available (80% complete), and serves as the  reference implementation
• This release starts providing command-line tools for introspection and manipulation.
• The documentation is now online http://docs.lpod-project.org
• Cookbooks provide ready-to-use examples of the API for ODT, ODS and ODP (tables, tocs, notes, images frames, slides transitions, shapes, ... )

Python Implementation

Low-level API

• All types of styles are supported in the low-level API.
• Text search and replace API is added
• Basic shapes can be created: ellipse and circle, rectangle and square, and line.
• Adding non ODF resources (e.g. images, pdf, ...) in documents
• A Virtual File System (VFS) layer handles grabbing document from HTTP and FTP.
• After starting with the libxml2 Python wrapper, switched to lxml for both speed and ease of use.

High-level API

• Template are provided, with empty body, i.e. the ODT template has no paragraph, the ODS template has no table and the ODP template has no draw page.
• A document can grab styles from another document to merge them with its own ones.
• A specific API is available on paragraphs to insert notes and annotation.
• A specific API is available for tables to abstract the XML model, e.g. you can access cell "C3" without knowning the storage.
• Tables can be created from and exported to CSV.
• The full API to metadata is available. Only RDF would be missing.
• The navigation API no longer use a context element. The element itself is the navigation API.

Command-line Utilities

• The lpod-show.py tool dumps a textual representation of the content. It can also dump the latter, style information and metadata list in a directory.
• The lpod-meta.py introspection tool can list and edit metadata of the document.
• The lpod-merge.py tool can merge documents of the same type. ODT, ODP, ODS and CSV and supported for now.
• The lpod-highlight.py tool can apply a style on a text pattern. The default style is overlining as if you were using a yellow highlighter pen.

Statistics: from v0.7 to v0.8

The new documentation for the lpOD project is available online. This online documentation is available starting with our 0.8 release and covers pretty much all that is needed to understand and hack lpOD. This documentation covers only the Python implementation, however.

You can access the documentation here.

Itaapy has joined the ODF Toolkit Union. This announcement was made at the OOoCON 2009 at Orvieto and is part of the general movement of progressive integration of the lpOD project inside the ODF Toolkit Union. Bringing the lpOD platform inside the ODF Tookit will help its better integration inside the ODF ecosystem and maximize the reuse of its components by the ODF Toolkit.

The first public release of lpOD will be available during the week of the 26th of October.  lpOD is released under the GPL v3 and the Apache v2.0 licenses. Code repository and mailing lists will be progressively rolled out during the year.

Feel free to contact our team if you have any question.

The lpOD project has recently visited the Sun OpenOffice.org team. This team is also one of the main original authors of the ODF standard. This was a fruitful day allowing for real information sharing and future collaboration.

Ars Aperta has joined the ODF Toolkit Union. This project acts as one of the main code repository in the ODF ecosystem. The lpOD project will progressively extend its cooperation to the ODF Toolkit Union.

The office file format OpenDocument has been developed by the OASIS Consortium. On the 3rd of May 2006 its version 1.0 has been standardized by the ISO.