Monday, September 10, 2007

A speak peak at the command line version of ICE

Today Ron, Oliver and I (mainly Ron) implemented a command line version of ICE and while we were at it we also added support to use the ATOM Publishing Protocol I demoed the other day.

The first demo is of the the command line ICE renderer that takes an OpenOffice.org or Word document and generates the HTML and PDF. A user wouldn't necessarily run it as a command line but what the demo shows is that you will soon be able to use ICE as a service.

View the command line ICE demo

The second demo is a combination of the command line HTML render with command line ATOM publishing into Blogger. Note Blogger is purely used for a demo, you will be able to publish to any other location provided it supports ATOM publishing.

View the ATOM Publishing demo

The next step is to add an interface to the ICE toolbar so that you can render your Word or OpenOffice.org document into clean XHTML and publish it using ATOM directly to your Blog or institutional repository. This can all be done from the comfort of your word processor.

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