Hi,
First, I spent a few minutes on the OpenOffice website looking for the
bug submission part. It didn't jump out at me, but I did find this list. :-)
I have tried to open the attached file in OpenOffice, hoping to import
its content as "preformatted text". To my surprise, it interpreted the
HTML content and embedded the resulting web page (complete with input
fields and button) inside the document!
Had the file been named "source.html", I could understand this as being
acceptable behaviour. However the file:
1. is named "source.txt"; and
2. is not an HTML document.
For this case, no problem, I can copy and paste and reformat the text in
a few seconds. However, when I stumbled upon the problem, I had a file
over 150 pages long that I wanted to import. The file contained a mix of
PHP code, HTML code, and other assorted plain text comments.
I was stymied for several minutes before my mind clicked to a way to
avoid triggering OpenOffice's over-zealous file-content interpretation
engine.
By wrapping the entire file inside <![CDATA[ and ]]>, I was able to
achieve the desired effect: import the source code as text and do not
interpret it for me, thank-you-very-much. :-) However, not all end users
may be able to think of this solution. Better would be a checkbox that
says, "Determine type by file extension" or some such drivel.
I really enjoy writing in OpenOffice, and am impressed by its File
Recovery mechanism -- which I managed to provoke about once every ten
minutes while editing a 200+ page document. Although a wee bit
frustrating, it never lost a single bit of data. Kudos!
Thank you for OpenOffice and keep up the good work.
Kind regards,
Dave Jarvis
Consider the following HTML code:
<html>
<body>
<form>
<input type="text" name="field" value="42" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
A great example of a simple form.
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