Your use case is very practical and very desirable. And yes, producing a single-file ODF document (XML format) would work great for similar applications, including creation of feature-test documents, etc.
There are major practical reasons why the single-file XML format is not the default format. It is odd that it is not a supported format, however, especially for input. I believe there were, at some point, separate transform scripts that could be added to OpenOffice.org to accomplish input and output of the single-file format. I don't know where those are and if they still work. It is an useful thing to research. I will dig into my files, but I am not hopeful. Keep asking around. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Dag Wieers [mailto:d...@wieers.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:06 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] use of flat xml formats [ ... ] I am writing an AsciiDoc backend to produce ODF files directly from AsciiDoc. I was also looking for a flat file importer. Currently LibreOffice and OpenOffice want to open such a .fodt (or .xml) file as text rather than an pure ODF file. Flat ODF file support would be useful to anyone producing/converting simple ODF files, and can help with learning/debugging ODF. It could be very useful to the larger ODF development community. Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [ ... ] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
