Re: [libreoffice-users] Clean up/optimize/canonicalize a .odt file

Hi :)
Thanks for that link! :))

It looks like a truly excellent project!  It is really good to have such a
professional looking web-page that is worded simply enough for normal
office workers to understand.  The nearest equivalent on the OASIS site is
horrendously complicated and waaay beyond the quick understanding of most
of my colleagues.

It looks like this question might be a little off-topic for them but they
might well have the expertise to be able to answer this question quickly
and easily.
Many thanks and regards from
Tom :)



On 25 September 2015 at 20:46, Charles-H. Schulz <
charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> Le 25 septembre 2015 21:42:12 GMT+02:00, Florian Reisinger <
> florei@libreoffice.org> a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > One possible reason is hard formatting. By adding and removing a style
> > hardcoded empty span tags can appear. However this should not happen
> > when using styles (even for bold and so on).
> >
> > I read this some time ago. Hope that helps :)
> >
> > Am 25. September 2015 21:36:08 MESZ, schrieb Mike Cowlishaw
> > <mfc@speleotrove.com>:
> > > I am the editor of a document [the IEEE 754-2008 standard] that was
> > > created
> > > around 15 years ago (using OpenOffice), and has had nearly 200 drafts,
> > > a
> > > number of editors, and countless edits. It was last changed in 2008,
> > > but is
> > > now about to go though a new revision cycle.
> > >
> > > I was delighted to find that LibreOffice handled the 2008 .odt file
> > > almost
> > > perfectly, with only 7 errors (all were weird spurious empty reference
> > > tags,
> > > of unknown provenance, that OpenOffice quietly ignored).
> > >
> > > While identifying and removing those from the content.xml, I noticed
> > > that
> > > there are hundreds (possibly thousands) of redundant tags. These are
> > > typically in the context: <span whatever>text1</span><span
> > > whatever>text2</span> where 'whatever' is identical, and either or
> > both
> > > 'text1' or 'text2' may be empty.
> > >
> > > It there a tool to clean these up? I could write one myself (I
> > recently
> > > wrote an XML parser) but if one already exists ...
> > >
> > > Many thanks -- Mike Cowlishaw
> > >
> > > [Apologies if this is a duplicate .. I tried it on askLibo some time
> > > ago but
> > > it is still "awaiting moderation".]
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> Hello Mike,
>
> You may want to get in touch with the Document Liberation project,  our
> sister project: http://www.documentliberation.org . They may be
> interested by your input.
>
> Best,
>
> Charles.
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