[jira] Updated: (FOR-311) OOo Headings bug causes Forrest to fail

["David Crossley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-311?page=all ]

David Crossley updated FOR-311:
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     Other Info: [Patch available]
    Description: 
There appears to be a bug or feature in OpenOffice which affects how haedings are stored as XML. It appears that if a virgin document is opened then all headings are stored in <text:h> tags, but if an existing document is opened that lacks a particular haeding style, then if you create that heading style it is stored in <text:p> tags.

This causes Forrest to mis-interpret headings, as the Forrest OOo XSL file identifies OOo headings by looking for the <text:h> tags.

(Moved detail from Description to Comment - see 2005-12-24)

  was:
There appears to be a bug or feature in OpenOffice which affects how haedings are stored as XML. It appears that if a virgin document is opened then all headings are stored in <text:h> tags, but if an existing document is opened that lacks a particular haeding style, then if you create that heading style it is stored in <text:p> tags.

This causes Forrest to mis-interpret headings, as the Forrest OOo XSL file identifies OOo headings by looking for the <text:h> tags.

You can reproduce this effect as follows:
 
1	Create a new text file.
2	Create 20 lines of text, one of each style Heading 1-10, with a "default" format line between each.
3	Save this file (as "head.sxw" for example), unzip it and examine its content.xml. You will see that all of the headings are of the format:

 <text:h text:style-name="Heading 5" text:level="5">Heading 5</text:h>

4	Copy head.sxw this to headless.sxw.
5	Open headless.sxw, delete the Heading 5 line, then save and close the file.
6	Reopen headless.sxw, and add a new line where the original Heading 5 line had been. Change the style of this new line to Heading 5. 
7	Save this file, unzip it and examine its content.xml. The new line of style heading 5 is:

  <text:p text:style-name="Heading 5">New heading 5</text:p>


So ...

So perhaps openoffice-writer2forrest.xsl should reconsider how it matches headings. Instead of the current:

  <xsl:template match="text:h[@text:level='1']">

maybe it should match text:h or text:p with an attribute text:style-name="Heading 1" etc.

(Hopefully I will work out how to attach the .sxw and .xml files so you can see these examples easily)



You can reproduce this effect as follows:
 
1	Create a new text file.
2	Create 20 lines of text, one of each style Heading 1-10, with a "default" format line between each.
3	Save this file (as "head.sxw" for example), unzip it and examine its content.xml. You will see that all of the headings are of the format:

 <text:h text:style-name="Heading 5" text:level="5">Heading 5</text:h>

4	Copy head.sxw this to headless.sxw.
5	Open headless.sxw, delete the Heading 5 line, then save and close the file.
6	Reopen headless.sxw, and add a new line where the original Heading 5 line had been. Change the style of this new line to Heading 5. 
7	Save this file, unzip it and examine its content.xml. The new line of style heading 5 is:

  <text:p text:style-name="Heading 5">New heading 5</text:p>


So ...

So perhaps openoffice-writer2forrest.xsl should reconsider how it matches headings. Instead of the current:

  <xsl:template match="text:h[@text:level='1']">

maybe it should match text:h or text:p with an attribute text:style-name="Heading 1" etc.

(Hopefully I will work out how to attach the .sxw and .xml files so you can see these examples easily)

> OOo Headings bug causes Forrest to fail
> ---------------------------------------
>
>          Key: FOR-311
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-311
>      Project: Forrest
>         Type: Improvement
>   Components: Plugin: OpenOffice.org
>     Versions: 0.6
>  Environment: All
>     Reporter: Charles Palmer
>     Priority: Minor
>  Attachments: headings.zip, openoffice-writer.sxw, openoffice-writer.sxw, openoffice-writer2forrest.xsl, openoffice-writer_clay.diff, openoffice-writer_update.sxw
>
> There appears to be a bug or feature in OpenOffice which affects how haedings are stored as XML. It appears that if a virgin document is opened then all headings are stored in <text:h> tags, but if an existing document is opened that lacks a particular haeding style, then if you create that heading style it is stored in <text:p> tags.
> This causes Forrest to mis-interpret headings, as the Forrest OOo XSL file identifies OOo headings by looking for the <text:h> tags.
> (Moved detail from Description to Comment - see 2005-12-24)

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