Closed
Bug 114376
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 days ago
Open StarOffice/OpenOffice.org/Oasis Open Document/ODF files in Mozilla
Categories
(Core :: Layout, enhancement)
Core
Layout
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
Future
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(Reporter: m.kluijtmans, Unassigned)
References
(Depends on 1 open bug)
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(Keywords: helpwanted)
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(1 obsolete file)
Could it be made possible to open staroffice / openoffice files in Mozilla. Staroffice 6.x files are zipped XML files, so I think it could be possible. Staroffice/Mozilla is the combination of the future. Please give it a try.
Comment 1•23 years ago
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It would be possible if StarOffice provided a stylesheet and DTD to use with these files.... XML on its own is useless for display purposes; you have to know what to do with it.
Comment 2•23 years ago
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layout. confirming RFE
Assignee: asa → attinasi
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → Layout
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: helpwanted
QA Contact: doronr → petersen
Updated•23 years ago
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Target Milestone: --- → Future
Comment 3•22 years ago
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->nobody, this is more involved than layout. StarOffice uses XML for styles (partly based on XSL:FO) which looks non-trivial to translate to CSS, which we use exclusively.
Assignee: attinasi → nobody
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Updated•22 years ago
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No longer blocks: 159310
Summary: Open staroffice files in Mozilla → [RFE] Open staroffice/openoffice files in Mozilla
Comment 5•22 years ago
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*** Bug 159310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6•22 years ago
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The file format specification is open and located at: http://xml.openoffice.org/xml_specification.pdf The OOo file format is a zip file. Inside are a bunch of XML files. The file "meta.xml" has the DTD information. I think we would have to be downloading external DTDs to get this working, though, so marking bug 22942 as a blocker. We aren't too far away from being able to implement this.
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Comment 8•21 years ago
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I'm not sure it makes sense to have this in the mozilla.org tracking system. Wouldn't it be better to develop it as a mozdev project and then open a bug to add those capabilities to Mozilla?
Summary: [RFE] Open StarOffice/OpenOffice.org files in Mozilla → Open StarOffice/OpenOffice.org files in Mozilla
Comment 9•21 years ago
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CPH wrote on OOo Forum : On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:38, Darragh Sherwin wrote: >> Nicu Buculei wrote: > >>> > Olivier Hallot wrote: >> >>>> >> Hello >>>> >> Sorry if this is stupid but I am wandering why a browser plugin to >>>> >> view OO docs are not yet available or under construction.... >>>> >> >>>> >> Is it a impossible task?, I am just innocently connecting OO zipped >>>> >> XML format with XML read capability of Mozilla... (I kmow nothing on >>>> >> XML!) and I think it will be nice if my browser could open OO docs >>>> >> directly... >> >>> > >>> > opening XML in Mozilla will give you nice formatted view of the XML >>> > source, not the document rendered > >> >> It would an interesting little project to write an XSLT for Mozilla to >> render an sxw document but you would need to write in support for >> Mozilla to unzip the sxw. >> Otherwise, you could use the FlatXML Filter and write the XSLT without >> the need for zip support. >> I seem to remember there was talk of this before?? The XSLT is already written : the XSLT for XHTML. Looks like it may only be a "simple" mozilla wrapper
Comment 10•21 years ago
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Only for general information, there also is an OOo-issue: <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=22406> Pls. also have a look to bug 194351, which also is concerning this issue. Rainer
Comment 11•21 years ago
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We are not alone, take a look at this: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=22406
Comment 13•21 years ago
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See also this reference: http://xml.openoffice.org/sx2ml/
Comment 14•21 years ago
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David, of course! If bug 194351 will be fixed, we should use XSLT from your URL to produce XHTML from OOo documents. I guess, XSLT should be the most relevant there, it would allow us to read not ony OOo documents, but WML, RSS, DocBook etc.
Comment 15•20 years ago
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*** Bug 243666 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16•20 years ago
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Other OOo issues: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2762 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24888 A Java applet exists - may or may not work: http://www.engg.upd.edu.ph/~ooview/
Comment 17•20 years ago
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Note that there will be a Mozilla plugin for SO/OOo files in OpenOffice.org 2.0 due Q12005. However it will rely on an existing install of OOo rather than being a freestanding viewer. http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/desktop_integration/ooo_mozilla_plugin.sxw for more info.
Comment 18•20 years ago
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It seems to me that plugin isn't a right way to do this. XSLT is a more powerful and common alternative. My reasons: 1. If we'll use an XSLT, we could get way to display OOo docs in Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird directly in messages (esp. for workgroup environment). Plugins generally are disabled in mail, and this is right policy. 2. XSLT is a platform independent feature. I see at least two advantages: a) if OOo guys will produce a new XML format (e.g. in OOo 3.0), they will write only one XSL file to correct all uncompatibilities; and b) OOo files will be displayed in all platforms which can run Mozilla, not only OOo-able (e.g. OpenVMS or AIX). 3. We already have a cross-platform mechanism to show any XML document via desired XSLT. Look at http://wmlbrowser.mozdev.org and see it in action.
Comment 19•20 years ago
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re #17 From Nick Richards: I hope this request is about creating an XSLT stylesheet to render OOo/Staroffice files. Note to all: OOo 2.0 uses by default the Open Text formats, made by OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office Spec: http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/fileIO/FileFormatNames.sxw
Comment 20•19 years ago
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*** Bug 312088 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Updated•19 years ago
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Summary: Open StarOffice/OpenOffice.org files in Mozilla → Open StarOffice/OpenOffice.org/Oasis Open Document/ODF files in Mozilla
Comment 24•19 years ago
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Depending on exactly how open the license is eventually decided by the community to be (there still appears to be some arguments about it), if we did implement native ODF XML parsing/rendering, we might want to consider the MS Office XML formats as well.
Comment 25•19 years ago
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Ian, if bug 194351 will be fixed, the question will be only about XSLT to transform Office XML to XHTML. Similar issue is discussed in bug 35995. Go to bug 194351 and vote for it.
Comment 26•18 years ago
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*** Bug 358958 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 27•18 years ago
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I agree CSS or XSLT is the better solution.
But as temp soln, I have a bookmarklet which do minimal things,
see attachment 244250 [details]
Updated•15 years ago
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QA Contact: chrispetersen → layout
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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Updated•1 month ago
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Attachment #9385616 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
Comment 29•23 days ago
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We aren't going to work on this.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 days ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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