Hi Damjan Thank you for the update and for moving forward with this task!
It would be great to be able to use the same ODF version as other Office suites. I haven't found any issues moving back and forth but it always makes me wonder if I lost something when I see the message "This document uses an unsupported version of the Open Document Format" For this feature only, I think it would be worth updating to 4.2! Thank you! All the best, Pedro > On 06/10/2026 6:30 PM WEST Damjan Jovanovic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 7:36 AM Damjan Jovanovic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I've started looking at how to add ODF 1.3 support to OpenOffice. > > > > If you scroll to the end of the monstrously long part 3 of the ODF 1.3 > > specification at > > https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/os/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-os-part3-schema.html > > where you'll see "Appendix G: Changes From ODF 1.2 (Non Normative)". > > Then examine: > > > > "Document Fields – General 7.3.1 Office-3783" > > > > and you follow that link to "Office-3783" and have a read, you'll see that > > all it does is *fix a typo*: > > Section 7.3.1 used to contain "OpenDocument fields display information > > about the current document or about a specific part of the current > > document.," - note the superfluous comma at the end - and now ends > > without that comma! > > > > So that item can immediately be ticked off as completed, because there is > > nothing we have to do. > > > > The same is also true for at least: > > "table:table-background 19.733 Office-3954" > > > > And: > > "Normative References 1.3 Office-3868" > > updates the <manifest:media-type> tag to refer to RFC6838 instead of the > > older RFC4288, which also might require no work to implement. > > > > So what we need is a table in our Wiki, with all "Changes From ODF 1.2" > > items from all the 1.3 documents (there's several), and then to read over > > them and mark off the ones that are irrelevant or complete, and track > > progress on the other items where we do have some development to do on our > > side. > > > > Can someone please create such a Wiki page, or give me access to do so? > > > > And out of interest, how do you find how and where we use an XML element > > or attribute? For example let's examine: > > <draw:applet> 10.4.7 Office-2044 > > which is deprecated by ODF 1.3. > > First remember our XML parsing doesn't work on strings, that would be too > > slow. Rather strings are converted to unique integers, and then we do fast > > integer comparisons. > > So if you go to main/xmloff and "grep applet * -R" you'll see: > > source/core/xmltoken.cxx: TOKEN( "applet", > > XML_APPLET ), > > where XML_APPLET is an integer constant (from an enum) that the "applet" > > element will be converted to. > > Then go to OpenGrok and do a "Full Search" for "XML_APPLET", and you can > > see where that's used. > > > > I've also created a local odf-1.3 Git branch for any development, but at > > present it only has 1 small patch to stop the version upgrade warning: > > > > ---snip--- > > diff --git a/main/sfx2/source/doc/objstor.cxx > > b/main/sfx2/source/doc/objstor.cxx > > index d794747b60..89ab8e1ca3 100644 > > --- a/main/sfx2/source/doc/objstor.cxx > > +++ b/main/sfx2/source/doc/objstor.cxx > > @@ -856,8 +856,8 @@ sal_Bool SfxObjectShell::DoLoad( SfxMedium *pMed ) > > if ( sVersion.getLength() ) > > { > > double nVersion = sVersion.toDouble(); > > - if ( nVersion > 1.20001 && > > SfxObjectShell_Impl::NeedsOfficeUpdateDialog() ) > > - // ODF version greater than 1.2 - added some > > decimal places to be safe against floating point conversion errors (hack) > > + if ( nVersion > 1.30001 && > > SfxObjectShell_Impl::NeedsOfficeUpdateDialog() ) > > + // ODF version greater than 1.3 - added some > > decimal places to be safe against floating point conversion errors (hack) > > { > > ::rtl::OUString sDocumentURL( > > pMedium->GetOrigURL() ); > > ::rtl::OUString aSystemFileURL; > > ---snip--- > > > > If others want to help, I'd rather push that branch upstream soon, so we > > can work on it together? > > > > Regards > > Damjan > > > > > > I've now closed a total of 64 of the 190 ODF 1.3 changes (33.68%) on > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/ODF+1.3+Changes. > > It was mostly done by finding the ones that were documentation fixes (typos > and description improvements), or that we currently already implement, and > closing them off without any code changes. This is easy and doesn't require > much knowledge or technical skill, so please join in if you can. > > And from what I see, there are even fewer changes from ODF 1.3 to 1.4, at > least for formulas: > https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part3-schema.html#__RefHeading__1420416_253892949 > https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/cs01/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.4-cs01-part4-formula.html#__RefHeading___Toc1134099_2705524876 > > Regards > Damjan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
