Thanks, Ian. This is an important test procedure -- taking a test document and seeing not only how well it is accepted but also what is re-saved by a particular processor.
The Google Docs approach seems pretty ridiculous. It has basically broken up the "Hello world" paragraph to have a paragraph style and to also have a differently-named automatic text style on each fragment: "Hello", " ", and "world". That is pretty ridiculous. So these forms of documents will be encountered in the wild when a Google Doc is exported for interchange as an ODF document. The bloat should be quite remarkable. Not just in the text but in the definitions of automatic styles. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: hamm...@gmail.com [mailto:hamm...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ian C Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 04:09 To: dev Subject: What Google does to odf documents Hi All, one of the things my tool does is compare the structure of documents. Different version of the same one as a user adds etc. I took a simple "Hello World" document and stored it in Google docs. I then downloaded it back again, no edits, I then compared the two. They are radically different. Just consider the document body. Original.... <office:body> <office:text> <text:sequence-decls> <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Illustration" /> <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Table" /> <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Text" /> <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Drawing" /> </text:sequence-decls> <text:p text:style-name="Text_20_body">Hello world </text:p> </office:text> </office:body> When downloaded. <office:body> <office:text> <text:p text:style-name="P1"> <text:span text:style-name="T1_1">Hello</text:span> <text:span text:style-name="T1_2"> <text:s /> </text:span> <text:span text:style-name="T1_3">world</text:span> </text:p> </office:text> </office:body> It lost the text-sequence-decls... no harm there. Not really sure what they were. But look at the simple text paragraph. It gets blown out to a span around each word with its own style! Even the space between the words has its own style! I'm sure there is some smart reason for this. I don't understand what it is. Let's hope we can do a better job with the round trip of a document in Corinthia, Then again maybe we will discover that is what we have to do? -- Cheers, Ian C
