Create a config extension to change a string-list value

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 5/6/24 23:19, Juan C. Sanz wrote:
> There is a document in the wiki 
> <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/b/b0/LibreOffice_config_extension_writing.pdf> explaining how to create a configuration extensions.
> 
> In this document it is said that the valid property values are string, 
> boolean, int, short, long, double, binary.
> 
> Also in the Chapter 15 - Configuration Management 
> <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DevGuide/Configuration_Management> of the Developers Guide that the same types are supported.
> 
> But if you search for some config values in Expert configuration, the 
> type may be different of the supported types, for example you con see 
> string-list (or depend on version []string).

The defining document for the configuration XML format is 
<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/OOR-document-format>, and also see the 
officecfg/registry/*.dtd files in the LO core repo.

> I use something like this, but changing oor:type="xs:string-list" for 
> every of the valid types, and with or without <it> label:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><oor:component-data 
> oor:name="Common" oor:package="org.openoffice.Office" 
> xmlns:oor="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry" 
> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><node 
> oor:name="Security"><node oor:name="Scripting"><prop 
> oor:name="SecureURL" oor:type="xs:string-list" 
> oor:finalized="false"><value><it>"$(work)/BD"</it></value></prop></node></node></oor:component-data>

Three notes:

* The type is called oor:string-list, not xs:string-list.

* Your string list has one element with literal value "$(work)/BD".  You 
probably don't want surrounding quotes as part of the element's value.

* Whether or not something like $(work) is expanded in some way does not 
depend on the configuration machinery itself, but on the code that 
consumes that specific property.  I have no idea whether that value 
actually means what you would expect it to me.