Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

Mark Bourne <libreoffice-ml.mbourne -AT- spamgourmet.com>
Wed, 05 Feb 2014 19:45:20 +0000

Uploading the document to the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/)it appears the DOCTYPE is not valid. It should be:

-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN
(the file is missing "//EN" from the end).

The original document doesn't fail with the version of LO I have, socannot check, but try correcting the DOCTYPE. If that allows the file toopen as expected, it appears the problem is with moneydance producinginvalid output, rather than with LO.

Arbitrarily changing the DOCTYPE to indicate HTML5 may well also fail,as the rest of the document is not valid HTML5.


Mark.


null wrote:

Hello,
     It looks like the problem is with LibreOffice interpreting
DOCTYPEs.  You see, every HTML is supposed to have a DOCTYPE at the top
of the file, explaining what version of HTML (HTML5, HTML4.01, etc) the
file uses.  The file you uploaded has a DOCTYPE of HTML4.01
Transitional.  Anyway, if I remove the <!DOCTYPE ...> part of the HTML
file, and reopen it in LibreOffice, it works just fine, and shows the
file's contents (not the source). Even switching the DOCTYPE to
<!DOCTYPE html> (HTML5) causes the problem.  So, in theory, if you want
to view an HTML file in LibreOffice 4.2, you have to remove its
<!DOCTYPE ...>, and it will work fine.  Would you like an official bug
to be filed so that the developers know of the problem and can try to
fix it?

Regards,
xmlhttprequest.open@gmail.com

On 2/5/2014 12:05 AM, Keith Bates wrote:

I've produced a document that doesn't work with LO. It is at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbylcso4r2qm2r2/test.html

Strangely it does open in Abiword.

Earlier documents produced by moneydance as recently as last month
open fine in LO. I have not upgraded moneydance in that time.

Having quickly opened about 20 html's the problem is limited to those
produced lately by moneydance.

I haven't had time to look closely at the html source. I suppose it's
possible that LO is now being more strict in its interpretation.

The work around in the short term might be to use Abiword.


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[libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2 · Keith Bates
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