[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 51726] RTF: Export RTF to xhtml produces duplicate text in output

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51726

--- Comment #7 from David Tardon <dtardon at redhat.com> 2012-07-16 07:51:25 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> XSLT is a great tool for processing xml formatted content, as long as the
> content is well formed. 

If it is not well-formed, it is not XML .-) Anyway, that is not what I meant.
The problem is in the complexity of the ODF format and impedance mismatch with
HTML. XSLT is just not suitable for the heavy processing that is necessary to
do the transformation (and no, XSLT 2.0 is not a solution. XSLT 2.0 is another
problem.) Any attempt to do it anyway just leads to the WORN (Write Once, Read
Never) type of code we have today, where any fix creates two new bugs.

> I have worked around the problem by using the "save as" instead of "export"
> option and selecting html as the target format.  
> 
> Interesting the problem doesn't occur when using "save as"...

AFAIK "save as" uses the old HTML export code from sw/source/filter/html .

There is also writer2latex extension, that (despite its name) contains a filter
for XHTML export too. It is written in Java and hopefully is in a better shape
than the XSLT filter.

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