Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick. Was: Looking for a .fodt validator

On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:08:55 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:

On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:04:02 +0000, Camaleón wrote:

On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:37:45 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:

On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:49:35 +0000, Camaleón wrote:

Also, if you open the file with a web browser (epiphany,
iceweasel...) it will tell the errors it finds.

iceweasel just reads the XML file and shows it to me in a nice
indented tree format. It's good to know I have such a tool. But it
finds no errors. Persumably, therefore, my XML is OK but I've
violated the .fodt schema, or hit a bug in OpenOffice Writer.

That indicates the XML syntax of your file is valid, but yes, OOo is
maybe crashing because cannot interpret the syntax. Launch OOo writer
and load that fodt file from command line to see the output errors.

Greetings,

Thanks. With my newfound iceweasel, I decided to use OpenOffice to make
an .fodt file to compare with my own.

I wrote a page with a footer containing a page number. I had no trouble
saving it as an .odt file, but OpenOffice 3.0 crashed when I tried to
save it as .fodt. So it looks as if .fodt support in OpenOffice is
totally fried.

Not only that, but after it crashed while saving the .fodt file, it
son't come up again at all. I don't even get to the "sorry I crashed,
would you like me to recover what you ewre doning?" dialogue.

Presumably there's some hostory file in a dot directory I need to delete
so as to get OpenOffice to work again.

I really hadn't expected something this straigntforward to fail!

Now I need another word processor that *does* handle .fodt. Or figure
out how to install an obsolete OpenOffice into my squeeze system. Or
change the code I've written to make a whole lot of files into a
temporary directory and zip them...

At this point mv .openoffice.org hide.openoffice.org doesn't help either.

After I moved the dotfile, I tried to start openoffice writer again. It
created a new .openoffice.org directory, but it still won't come up and
give me a window to edit documents in.

-- hendrik


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