Let the Sunshine In: Software support engineer in Tokyo

I recently downloaded bunch of StarOffice presentations. I view these on 2nd display and I want them to autoplay. These are XML files. So, I thought I could write XSLT but I'm not good at it. Instead, I thought I could use xml diff tool to apply the change to one file to all other files in batch.



Here are the xml diff/patch tools I tried. The bottom line is: I couldn't make none of these achieve what I want.

1. xmldiff/xmlrev
   

   a python tool that figures out the differences between two similar XML files
   

   It turned out that xmlrev hasn't implemented 'INSERT' yet.
2. Microsoft XmlDiff
   patch tool checks checksum of original file. So, the patch can be applied to only 1 file.
3. diffxml - XML Diff and Patch Utilities
   

   This project aims to provide Open Source XML diff and patch utilities which operate on the hierarchical structure of XML documents.

   This worked for some files but didn't work for files which have a little different structure.
4. Perl: xupdate - search.cpan.org
   

   xupdate - Process XUpdate commands over an XML document

   This page explains well. But it didn't work on OpenDocument xml.
5. another Python tool: 4suite.org
   

   command-line tool for performing XUpdates on XML documents

   I used the same xupdate output from #1.

So, what will I do next? I'm considering these.

1. OpenOffice API or macro
2. Disregard the xml aspect of content.xml file and process it by perl
3. Use OpenOffice XML tool from here and write XSL
   Xml - OpenOffice.org Wiki
   

These are the Wiki pages of the OpenOffice.org XML Project