RE: [libreoffice-users] use of flat xml formats

Your use case is very practical and very desirable.

And yes, producing a single-file ODF document (XML format) would work
great for similar applications, including creation of feature-test
documents, etc.

There are major practical reasons why the single-file XML format
is not the default format.  It is odd that it is not a supported
format, however, especially for input.

I believe there were, at some point, separate transform scripts that
could be added to OpenOffice.org to accomplish input and output of
the single-file format.  I don't know where those are and if they 
still work.  

It is an useful thing to research. I will dig into my files, but
I am not hopeful. 

Keep asking around.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Dag Wieers [mailto:dag@wieers.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:06
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] use of flat xml formats

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I am writing an AsciiDoc backend to produce ODF files directly from 
AsciiDoc. I was also looking for a flat file importer. Currently 
LibreOffice and OpenOffice want to open such a .fodt (or .xml) file as 
text rather than an pure ODF file.

Flat ODF file support would be useful to anyone producing/converting 
simple ODF files, and can help with learning/debugging ODF. It could be
very useful to the larger ODF development community.

Kind regards,
-- 
-- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, info@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/

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