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Re: why not html?
by Cornelius Schumacher on Wednesday 16/May/2007, @16:26

I love the idea of having a commonly available library to operate on ODF formats, using them as storage format or interacting with applications using ODF or whatever else. There are countless exciting use case. I would for example like to be able to edit a template document for something like an invoice in KWord/OpenOfficeWriter/... and then fill in the actual data from a specialized application knowing about the business logic behind the specific invoice (maybe a combination of say KMyMoney, KAddressBook and Kraft).

On the other hand I can only support Richard's suggestion to use RDF. This goes beyond the notion of a file format for storage of data. It includes relating data, interacting with web resources, sharing of information and much more of the things user want to do in the Web 2.0 times. We shouldn't miss out on this opportunity just because we usually think in the traditional lines of storage file formats.

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