odfpy
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xml2odf
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xml2odf
Create ODF package from OpenDocument in XML form
xml2odf
-o outputfile
-s
inputfile
Description
OpenDocument can be a complete office document in a single
XML file. The script will take such a document and create a package.
This is mainly useful as a postprocesser of a program producing XML,
such as a stylesheet.
Inputfile
is assumed to be an
OpenDocument file in XML form.
If there is no inputfile, the program will read from standard input.
The flag -s adds correct suffix to the filename according to what mime type
is found in the XML file, in cause you don't know already what document
type you are packaging.
If output file is not specified output will be to standard out.
Section 2.1.1 of Open Document Format for Office Applications
says that the [content.xml] file contains the document content, along with the
automatic styles needed for the document content.
The [styles.xml] file contains all the named styles of a document, along with
the automatic styles needed for the named styles.
The application doesn't know which automatic style is needed for what, so
it puts the same set of automatic styles into both files.
One could assume that the inverse operation would be easier, but OpenOffice.org
is quite happy to use the same names for two different automatic styles. For instance, a
style used inside <style:footer> can have the same name as one used inside
<office:text> but be a different paragraph style.
This is reported as bug #90494 (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=90494)
Example
xml2odf -o testdocument -s xml-file
See Also
odftools(1),
odf2xml(1)
Bugs
Doesn't handle external data -- images and such.
The library used for the parsing of XML expands empty elements from
<element/> to <element></element>. It should not have
an effect on the document parsing.