(Originally, this was a thread on whether to enable ODF uploads on
Commons. See
[
http://mail-archive.decenturl.com/wikitech-l-open-document-format].)
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Platonides wrote:
If you come up with a solution, we'll be
happy to hear about it.
Surely
OpenOffice.org (Sun Microsystems) must be able to produce a
validator in open source code?! Has this been asked of them?
Why else do we try to use open formats?
Last Saturday I was at the yearly meeting of Serbian
OpenOffice.org
community, so I asked people about this. They tell me that something
like this is indeed produced, and is called
http://odftoolkit.org/ . By
using this toolkit it should be possible to validate ODF documents, make
sure there are no "extra" files in their archives, and even to modify
documents so that f.e. macros and scripts are removed from them. It
doesn't require OOo to be installed. So if anyone is interested in
validating ODF files so that their upload could be enabled on Commons,
this would be the way to go.