On m'a présenté durant les RMLL l'odfToolkit: The OpenOffice.org ODF Toolkit Project.

The current demand for an “ODF toolkit” actually is a demand for a framework that allows the creation and manipulation of ODF documents in a lightweight fashion. Office applications like OpenOffice.org actually support this functionality, but they carry a lot of functionality with them that is not required for composing or modifying documents, for instance on a server. Furthermore, OpenOffice.org's API did already exist before ODF was defined, and therefore is not as good aligned to ODF and the task of document creation and processing than it could be. The solution for these two problems actually is an ODF Toolkit that is less complex than an office application, and has an API tailored to the creation an processing of ODF documents.

Je vous conseille de lire le White Paper.

En gros, cela veut dire que l'on pourra utiliser OOo en tant que "bibliothèque" pour manipuler de l'OpenDocument (créer un document, le modifier, l'exporter, et même en faire un rendu à l'écran). C'est une très bonne initiative. C'est un peu comme Firefox, on peut exploiter les composants XPCom et Gecko en dehors de Firefox.

Bon, maintenant, devinez à quoi je pense :)