libreoffice converstion of egistrymodifications.xcu user items to systemwide xml registry share

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 11/04/2019 21:17, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> I am trying to convert changes to 
> /home/$USER/.config/libreoffice/4/user/registrymodifications.xcu into 
> systemwide configuration for users that start libreoffice for the first 
> time under linux with systemwide settings.
> 
> I tried placing a xml file in 
> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/registry/registrymodifications-system-wide.xcu but 
> I can not seem to get the syntax right.

Directly in share/registry/ the file would need to have .xcd extension 
and adhere to officecfg/registry/data.dtd.  That means that those <item 
oor:path="..."> elements would not be supported, just the more tedious 
hierarchical <node oor:name="..."> ones (see 
officecfg/registry/component-update.dtd for details; seems I never came 
around to lifting the requirement that an .xcu nested inside an .xcd can 
only have an oor:component-data top-level element, not an oor:items one).

However, the share/registry/ config layer also supports .xcu files in a 
data/ sub-dir, so similar to the hack of adding a 
share/registry/registrymodifications-system-wide.xcd you could use the 
hack of adding a 
share/registry/data/registrymodifications-system-wide.xcu into which you 
could easily copy-paste items from a registrymodifications.xcu:

> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <oor:items xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>  xmlns:oor="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry">
>   <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Common/Save/Document"><prop oor:name="WarnAlienFormat" oor:op="fuse"><value>false</value></prop></item>
>   <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Setup/Office/Factories/org.openoffice.Setup:Factory['com.sun.star.text.TextDocument']"><prop oor:name="ooSetupFactoryDefaultFilter" oor:op="fuse"><value>MS Word 2007 XML</value></prop></item>
>   <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Setup/Office/Factories/org.openoffice.Setup:Factory['com.sun.star.presentation.PresentationDocument']"><prop oor:name="ooSetupFactoryDefaultFilter" oor:op="fuse"><value>Impress MS PowerPoint 2007 XML</value></prop></item>
>   <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Setup/Office/Factories/org.openoffice.Setup:Factory['com.sun.star.sheet.SpreadsheetDocument']"><prop oor:name="ooSetupFactoryDefaultFilter" oor:op="fuse"><value>Calc MS Excel 2007 XML</value></prop></item>
> </oor:items>

(The non-hacky way, of course, is to create an .oxt LO extension that 
you install system-wide.)