My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

Using pyuno you can script OpenOffice with Python. Pyuno allows you to create macros inside OpenOffice and it also allows you to create external Python scripts that talk to a running copy of ...

Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite today, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open ...

Hi Everyone, I'm about 98% done building an app for parsing a certain network vendor's XML dumps, and need some help with group objects :) I know I should have used etree, but minidom seemed too ...

Linux only: Expand OpenOffice.org's document opening, saving, and conversion powers to Office 2007 documents with the Open XML Translator, a free plug-in intended for Ubuntu systems (although ...

Novell is adding open-source Open XML format reading and writing functionality to OpenOffice.org.

OpenOffice 2.0 features a standards-based XML architecture, which the report says is intended to tempt even more governments, companies and individuals to convert from MS Office because it ...

A cloud-based version of Apache OpenOffice being worked on could extend the productivity suite to mobile devices.