Google Summer of Code: ODF Command Line Tools (Draft Proposal)

by Noah Tilton for Apache Software Foundation

The ODF Command Line Tools (OCLT) would purport to be a suite of cross-platform utilities that would make it easy to do both simple and complex text manipulation tasks from the command line. The OCLT would be able to manipulate ODF documents both in terms of structure *and* content. The target audience of the OCLT would be command-line afficionados, power users, QA testers, web developers, and others who may be, but are not necessarily, professional developers.