I want to place a software manual under source control. It seems most feasible to use a flat XML format, in particular, .fodt.
But I have some difficulties because when LO 3.5.4 opens a .fodt and saves it again without making any changes, the resulting file changes nevertheless. I'm writing a small tool that transforms the XML into a canonical format so that only substantial changes remain. The question is: Which transformations are allowed? - I bring the styles under <office:automatic-styles> into a canonical order. Do styles in this section only reference style from <office:styles> section (e.g. via style:parent-style-name), which occurs earlier in the file? - I give the automatic style canonical names because due to the re-ordering they are re-numbered, which leads to a whealth of unwanted changes in <text:span style-name=...> attributes. (This seems to work so far.) But there are other changes: - <office:meta> changes. It's not a problem, I don't care about this. - <office:settings> changes. I don't know, yet, whether I mind or not. - The <draw:frame draw:z-index="251"> attribute changes. Can I just replace the z-index with 1 or 2? What will happen? - The <text:list xml:id="list533178598"> changes. That xml:id does not seem to be used anywhere. Can I just remove it? What will I lose? - Measurements change. E.g. (just to pick one case), in <style:graphic-properties> the draw:visible-area-width changes from 6.088cm to 6.089cm. Is there a remedy to avoid changes of this kind? Any insights are welcome! Thanks, -- Hannes _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
