Re: some file format spec problems with the OOXML chart import/export

On 02/05/13 00:24, Markus Mohrhard wrote:
> Hey,
>
> so I have been fixing some chart OOXML issues recently and there are
> some general problems.
>
> There are a number of comments like (from typegroupcontext.cxx:147)
>     // default is 'false', not 'true' as specified
> but testing this in Excel showed that Excel respects the standard in
> contrast to our import and export. Does anyone know why these comments
> have been introduced or does anyone have a reason why we should not
> fix this stuff? I already fixed a few of these problems that made my
> simple test document look awful when being imported into Excel.

no idea; perhaps it is the case that different versions (or even
different patch levels) of MSO have different defaults?

> If there is nobody opposing it I will slowly fix these issues in the
> chart import/export where I see them. Sadly there is no way to
> automatically test these things as they are wrong in the import and
> the export filter. The only way is to check the OOXML standard and
> check how our exported documents look in MSO.

if in doubt i guess it can't hurt to write the explicit value and not
rely on any defaults.