[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 140018] Export: Input list with empty item makes DOCX that can't be opened in Word - Generates XML parsing error

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140018

Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Dave Potter from comment #3)
> Could you provide the exact steps you used to create the document please?

Definitely.
1. Receive a broken DOCX document from a user privately.
2. Start cleaning its XML to nail down the problem.
3. Find out that the field is the culprit, and that removing the empty item
fixes the problem.
4. Save the original broken document to ODF, removing everything except the
problematic field ;-P

So no, I don't know how it was created initially. Maybe it was created
elsewhere, e.g. in Word, and then re-saved in LibreOffice. The problem is that
LibreOffice saves invalid XML (or at least unreadable by Word); LibreOffice
could of course consider the empty entry invalid (and drop on import), or do
something else :-D

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