Office-o-tron

A web and command-line application that accepts ODF or OOXML packages and validates the XML within, returning a summary report in XHTML.

See the About page for more information ...

The source is licensed under the Mozilla Public License v1.1.

See it working for this online validator.

Office-o-tron is also used by the Officeshots project.

Version 0.7.0

Credit to Cedric Bosdonnat of Suse for many of the enhancements in this release

Is the latest release:

• Fuller schema validation for OOXML documents
• Support for MCE
• Updates ODF schemas to latest versions
• Fixes bug whereby ODF 1.0 documents were validated against ODF 1.2 spec

Version 0.6.1

Changes:

• Better ODF manifest validation and package spidering
• Tuning of online service to balance loads better

Version 0.6.0

Changes:

• OOXML - Patches from the Novell team applied (better command-line options) - thanks guys!
• ODF - schemas updated to latest public review drafts
• ODF - spurious error message about ZIP structure removed
• ODF - manifest validation added for draft 1.2 documents
• General - resource leak fixed + substantial performance improvements!

Version 0.5.4

Changes:

• OOXML - fixed bug which prevented complete spidering of OPC packages
• OOXML - fixed bugs in MIME type/schema mappings
• OOXML - implemented relative URI addressing for OPC Relationship targets
• OOXML - implemented content type defaulting from Part Name extensions
• OOXML - alerts on encountering deprecated technology

Version 0.5.2

Changes:

• OOXML - Reports leading slash problem in OPC package when encountered
• Posting of an About page

Version 0.5.0

Changes:

• Major refactoring to allow for physical validation phase
• Bit-level ZIP inspection (and first error reporting)

Version 0.4.0

Changes:

• ZIP functionality re-worked to use Info-ZIP
• Updated ODF Pt 1 schema to current (CD04) draft for draft ODF 1.2 submissions

Version 0.3.2

Changes:

• Bug fix for leading slash ambiguity in OPC part references
• Re-licenced to use the MPL 1.1

Version 0.3.0

Changes:

• Support for OOXML validation (ISO/IEC 29500:2008 "Transitional" only)

Version 0.2.0

Changes:

• Support for POSTed ODF documents (see here for more details)
• Better validation reporting

Version 0.1.1

Changes:

• More gracefully failure in the face of unexpected resources being submitted for validation
• A report of the meta:generator value for submitted ODF documents
• Support for ID/IDREF integrity checking
• Support for enforced validation of ODF adocuments gainst the ODF International Standard (ISO/IEC 26300)
• More nicely formatted validation reports