Press Release

OpenDocument toolkit: Call for tenders

6 September 2006

The OpenDocument Fellowship is calling for tenders to develop a toolkit for converting from HTML+CSS files into OpenDocument Text. This is the first of a series of development projects funded by donations to the Fellowship.

The project must produce:

• An XSLT or cross-platform library to convert XHTML 1.0 into ODT.
• A cross-platform library or program to convert CSS2 into ODF styles.
• A Linux command-line tool that converts HTML 4.0 + CSS2 into ODT.

The product is expected to support standard features such as images, tables, floats and HTML forms. The product is not expected to convert SVG files into OpenDocument Graphics.

Submission deadline is September 23.

The full tender document is here:
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/development/projects/html2odf.

More on other funded and proposed development projects is here: http://opendocumentfellowship.org/development/projects

The OpenDocument Fellowship is a volunteer organisation with members around the world. Our goal is to promote the use and development of the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument). We support the work of community volunteers in promoting, improving and providing user assistance for OpenDocument and software designed to operate on data in this format. http://opendocumentfellowship.org/

For more information, contact:

Press:
Ian Lynch, Press contact, OpenDocument Fellowship
Email: ian.lynch@opendocumentfellowship.org
Phone: +44 018 2730 5940

Developers:
Daniel Carrera, Project Committee, OpenDocument Fellowship
Email: daniel.carrera@opendocumentfellowship.org