CALC: Difference between "Save as Document HTML" and "Export to XHTML"?

[Kohei Yoshida]

On 08/05/2013 11:09 AM, Wagner Macedo wrote:
> Hello, I'm beginning as sporadic volunteer (for now) to the LO development.
>
> Saying this, I visited
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41281, marked as
> ProposedEasyHack and I asked (since I don't know if I should ask here
> or there, I'm asking here too):
>
>> What is the supposed difference between "Save as Document HTML (Calc)" and "Export to XHTML"?
>> At my tests using LibreOffice 4.1, I still confirm the bug, using the former. But in the latter way, it is working.
In short, these two take two different code paths.  The HTML export one 
goes through an internal, C++ export filter (I believe), whereas the 
XHTML export one goes through a XSLT based export path, which is super 
slow and is not scalable.

In the future we should probably organize this area, and just have one 
C++-based export filter that always exports XHTML.  But we are not there 
yet.

Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice Calc hacker, SUSE.