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

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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