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NAME

6       xml2odf - Create ODF package from OpenDocument in XML form
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SYNOPSIS

9       xml2odf [-o outputfile] [-s] [inputfile]
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DESCRIPTION

12       OpenDocument can be a complete office document in a single XML file.
13       The script will take such a document and create a package. This is
14       mainly useful as a postprocesser of a program producing XML, such as a
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17       “Inputfile” is assumed to be an OpenDocument file in XML form. If there
18       is no inputfile, the program will read from standard input. The flag -s
19       adds correct suffix to the filename according to what mime type is
20       found in the XML file, in cause you don´t know already what document
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23       If output file is not specified output will be to standard out.
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25       Section 2.1.1 of Open Document Format for Office Applications says that
26       the [content.xml] file contains the document content, along with the
27       automatic styles needed for the document content. The [styles.xml] file
28       contains all the named styles of a document, along with the automatic
29       styles needed for the named styles. The application doesn´t know which
30       automatic style is needed for what, so it puts the same set of
31       automatic styles into both files.
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33       One could assume that the inverse operation would be easier, but
34       OpenOffice.org is quite happy to use the same names for two different
35       automatic styles. For instance, a style used inside <style:footer> can
36       have the same name as one used inside <office:text> but be a different
37       paragraph style. This is reported as bug #90494
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EXAMPLE

41           xml2odf -o testdocument -s xml-file
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SEE ALSO

44       odftools(1), odf2xml(1)
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BUGS

47       Doesn´t handle external data -- images and such.
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49       The library used for the parsing of XML expands empty elements from
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AUTHOR

54       Søren Roug
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59odfpy                             03/15/2009                        XML2ODF(1)