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Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Editing OpenDocument files with Ant

Found this via Bob Sutor and thought it was really cool. This is an early example of the power an open document format can bring to the table – imagine where you could take this with the intersection of XML based ODF and XML native database storage. Erwin’s particular example was implemented using Ant… in the future will we stop emailing documents and just send them directly from a build server? Probably not, but I think the concept will certainly be applied for real life situations.

http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/odf_conversion_with_ant