ODF-XSLT Project Announcement

ODF-XSLT Project Announcement
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Lone Wolves is happy to announce the ODF-XSLT project [1]. The ODF-XSLT 
Document Generator is a library written in PHP 5 that brings the full power 
of XSLT to your OpenDocument files. It enables you to use ODF files as if 
they were plain XSLT templates. It also includes a few extra parsing options 
that allow you to edit the XSLT parts of these ODF from within your 
favourite office suite. ODF-XSLT is developed by Tribal Internet Marketing 
[2] and is released by Lone Wolves as Free Software under the GNU General 
Public License, version 3. 

[1] http://www.jejik.com/odf-xslt/
[2] http://www.tribal-im.com/ 

The first release of ODF-XSLT is odf-xslt-0.4 and can be downloaded from our 
download section [3], together with a nightly snapshot of the subversion 
trunk. You can also check out the latest version directly from our 
subversion repository [4]. The manual [5] and API documentation [6] are 
available from the project website. 

[3] http://www.jejik.com/odf-xslt/download/
[4] http://svn.jejik.com/
[5] http://www.jejik.com/odf-xslt/manual/
[6] http://www.jejik.com/api/odf-xslt/ 

Features
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* Based on the industry standard (ISO/IEC 26300) OpenDocument format.
* Multiple document types supported (text, spreadsheet, etcetera).
* Full XSLT support. Since XSLT is Turing-complete, anything is possible (in 
theory).
* Templates can be edited from within your office suite, such as 
OpenOffice.org or KOffice 2.
* Easily extensible by hooking in pre- and postprocessors. 

Requirements
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* PHP 5.2 or later
* PHP CLI for the commandline utility
* libxslt and the PHP XSL extension
* zlib and the PHP Zip extension 

Acknowledgments
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Many thanks to Heini van Bergen from Tribal Internet Marketing for allowing 
ODF-XSLT to be released as Free Software. Also thanks to Mirko Nasato who's 
JODReports [7] software was a big inspiratrion for ODF-XSLT. 

[7] http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodreports 

About Lone Wolves
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Stichting Lone Wolves is a small not-for-profit development company based in 
The Netherlands. We create websites for small to medium sized businesses and 
use the profits to fund our free software projects such as gnome-hearts and 
ODF-XSLT. 

About Tribal Internet Marketing
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Tribal was established in 1999 and since then started offering full-service 
internet solutions. Tribal Internet Marketing (IM) [8] is, in conjunction 
with Tribal Internet Solutions (IS), a division of Tribal BV and is one of 
the top specialized search engine marketing agencies in the Netherlands. 

[8] http://www.tribal-im.com