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

On 09/27/2011 05:58 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, NoOp wrote:
>
> > On 09/27/2011 12:05 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > ,,,
> > > 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.
> >
> > I suspect it's a Windows version issue. I can easily open .fodt, .fods
> > in linux LO 3.3.4 & 3.4.3. Windows versions act (using the same test
> > files) do as you suggest and only open as text.
>
> I am using Linux, however I found that the flat XML ODF files require an 
> office:mimetype attribute to the office:document root-element. Not doing 
> this will make LibreOffice (3.4.3) fail to open the document as ODF, but 
> instead as plain text.
>
> So adding:
>
>      office:mimetype="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text"
>
> did the trick for me !

I use Ubuntu & I simply right-clicked the file in Nautilus & selected LO
Calc as the option to open. That added the mime type to my mime data so
I didn't have to add anything.



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