I found that if a workbook has been saved from openoffice. It add some metadata into it and gnumeric retains this metadata even if the workbook was converted into gnumeric's xml format. However the metadata changes from version to version of gnumeric even nothing actually changed and that workbook was not accessed by openoffice again. As an example, the diff of a workbook
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <gnm:Workbook xmlns:gnm="http://www.gnumeric.org/v10.dtd"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.gnumeric.org/v9.xsd";> - <gnm:Version Epoch="1" Major="9" Minor="15" Full="1.9.15"/> + <gnm:Version Epoch="1" Major="9" Minor="16" Full="1.9.16"/> <gnm:Attributes> <gnm:Attribute> <gnm:type>4</gnm:type> @@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ </gnm:Attributes> <office:document-meta xmlns:office="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; xmlns:meta="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:meta:1.0" xmlns:ooo="http://openoffice.org/2004/office"; office:version="1.1"> <office:meta> - <meta:creation-date>2009-04-22T19:24:48Z</meta:creation-date> + <meta:user-defined meta:name="msole:codepage" meta:type="string">-535</meta:user-defined> <meta:user-defined meta:name="gsf:thumbnail" meta:type="string"></meta:user-defined> <meta:editing-cycles>0</meta:editing-cycles> - <dc:date>2009-04-22T19:24:48Z</dc:date> - <meta:user-defined meta:name="msole:codepage" meta:type="string">-535</meta:user-defined> <meta:editing-duration>2009-04-22T19:24:48Z</meta:editing-duration> + <meta:creation-date>2009-04-22T19:24:48Z</meta:creation-date> + <dc:date>2009-04-22T19:24:48Z</dc:date> <meta:print-date>2009-04-22T19:24:48Z</meta:print-date> </office:meta> </office:document-meta> specifically the position for the lines of creation-date and codepage oscillating for nearly every release of gnumeric. Is this related to gnumeric itself or other xml library? Is there any option in ssconvert to strip off all foreign metadata for gnumeric xml target? -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
