Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Creating LibreOffice Calc document from XML (or some other file?)

Hi Alex,

Have you filed a feature request for this? It sounds useful.

Paul



On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:08:15 +0100
Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 03/11/2013 20:47, Mario Splivalo a écrit :
>
>
> Hi Mario,
>
> It is unfortunate, but Excel does a far better job of
> importing/opening random XML files than LO. I download XML files from
> a public administration I work with, and in Excel I can just open
> them by double-clicking on them. Excel creates an on-the-fly ad-hoc
> namespace for the document if it doesn't recognize the namespace of
> the XML or doesn't have an import filter for it, and also preserves
> the tree structure of the elements and attributes, using the elements
> as filter headers. Quite simply put, this is brilliant.
>
> LO, on the otherhand, imports everything as simple text and dumps it 
> willy-nilly into the spreadsheet in the first column, losing all 
> element/attribute information. If you want the same thing in LO, you 
> have to design and implement a separate XSLT filter for each XML type 
> that you want to open...
>
>
>
> Alex


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