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Friday, 09 May 2008

Updating XSLT based filters – enhancing XHTML export

Joerg Sievers

Svante Schubert (Co-lead XML project) has finished an update for the XHTML export filter. It was the 14^th of April where the CWS arrived ready for QA-status. In the meanwhile Svante and Mathias Bauer also have discussed about updating the XSLT based filters via an extension [issue 88270] to be independent from update cycles of the whole office application. So the iTeam decided to expand the scope of the CWS DEV300/xsltfilter09 and I am really happy that we have done that.

One week later – 21^st of April – the CWS was again ready for QA and with the integration of the CWS xsltfilter09 to the DEV300 master workspace the OpenOffice.org will get some really great enhancements for the XHTML export and also the other XSLT based filters (e.g. DocBook XML):

change of the default extension for the XHTML export from .xhtml to .html

with that change the Internet Explorer is able to load the exported XHTML documents of OOo [issue 85268]

Footnotes are now supported also in XHTML export [issue 34424]
Field values are now supported in XHTML export [issue 75125]
Export of headings greater six now according to XHTML specification [issue 80679]

Great work Mathias and Svante!

tags: cws qa xml

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Gerri said:

Thank you very much! When will the xhtml filter actually replace the old built-in html 3.2 export? when will the xhtml export support drawings and images?

Thank you for all your work.
Gerald

Posted by Gerri on May 09, 2008 at 10:07 PM CEST #

Joerg Sievers said:

Hi Gerald,

first: It has not been decided to replace the old 3.2 filter. (I don't know if there is any discussion about that at the moment)

second: To support embedded objects we have to do some work. There existing some issues in that area. One issue is #22012 and I have asked SUS if it is possible to use the base64 embedded in the XHTML stream.

Cu,
Jogi

Posted by Joerg Sievers on May 10, 2008 at 08:52 AM CEST #

JörgW said:

Hi Gerri,

replacing of the old 3.2 export filter with the XHTML doesn't make sense before an XHMTL import filter is available, that is capable to import at least all elements that the XHTML export filter supports. It's a major feature of OOo Writer Web that you can edit existing HTML files with it.

On the other hand, I'm not sure if it's the right way to use import/export of the whole file for Writer Web. I imgagin a solution which changes the (X)HTML code in real time, when e.g. a character is typed. This would allow cool features like a split window with (X)HTML source on the one side an the rendered page on the other side.

Just my 2 cents,

Jörg

Posted by JörgW on May 10, 2008 at 09:38 AM CEST #

Bruno Verachten said:

Good work. How am I supposed to install this last version?

Posted by Bruno Verachten on June 03, 2008 at 05:50 PM CEST #

Joerg Sievers said:

Hi Bruno,

the CWS has been integrated in the DEV300m13 milestone. All builds after it will have the changes included. There exists no extension-based XHTML-filter package now.

Jogi

Posted by Joerg Sievers on June 03, 2008 at 06:27 PM CEST #

Bruno Verachten said:

Thanks a lot, that's what I wanted to know.

Posted by Bruno Verachten on June 03, 2008 at 06:30 PM CEST #