Svante Schubert

Quick overview: Intro, use cases & updates from the past months and likely future!

New ODF Toolkit releases have been released. How can it help you? Where are we striving for?

New ODF Toolkit releases have been published. What's missing from the 1.0? How can it help you? Where are we striving for? What will be next? What are the synergies between ODF TC? No incident having ODF Toolkit Co-maintainers and ODF TC Co-editors Michael Stahl and Svante Schubert lined up!

OX Documents is a browser based ODF editor using the upcoming OASIS ODF change operations as principle design.

OX Documents is a combination of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation editor. Released is OX Text, which directly reads and writes native ODF and OOXML documents without loss of format. Known document parts are sent to clients via operations and user changes are merged back into the DOM on the server. Merging is easy as OX Text already uses the upcoming ODF change operations as principle design. This session provides a brief introduction of the operation design in OX Text and lessons being learned.

The OASIS Advanced Document Collaboration subcommittee is working on an update of OpenDocument change-tracking (CT). The update will not only enhance the existing CT feature set to the current state of the art, e.g. tracking style changes, but also lay the foundation for the standardization of real-time collaboration (RTC) by making CT compatible to RTC.

The new design in a nutshell Pattern of trackable changes of OpenDocument will be derived from common user actions and defined as "operations". The overall design of ODF change-tracking will change from a before/after XML design to a sequence of serialized operations, improving the merge ability using Operational Transformation. To split overall complexity the overall set of valid documents defined by the RelaxNG schema will be split into smaller XML components based on semantic entities known by the user, e.g. table, image, paragraph and character. A complete XML document tree is mappable to a component tree and operations are always referring to a component they are altering, choosing one of the 6 meta operation types: add, remove, split, merge, move and replace. The theory part - new design in a nutshell Pattern of trackable changes of OpenDocument will be derived from common user actions and defined as "operations". The overall design of ODF change-tracking will change from a before/after XML design to a sequence of serialized operations, improving the merge ability using Operational Transformation. To split overall complexity the overall set of valid documents defined by the RelaxNG schema will be split into smaller XML components based on semantic entities known by the user, e.g. table, image, paragraph and character. A complete XML document tree is mappable to a component tree and operations are always referring to a component they are altering, choosing one of the 6 meta operation types: add, remove, split, merge, move and replace.