Hello, I would like to edit OpenOffice.org documents (XML format) with dom4j. Therefor I use the OpenOffice.org Flat XML format (the whole document in one xml file instead of four separate documents). The document begins with this tag: <office:document xmlns:office="http://openoffice.org/2000/office"; xmlns:style="http://openoffice.org/2000/style"; xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"; xmlns:table="http://openoffice.org/2000/table"; xmlns:draw="http://openoffice.org/2000/drawing"; xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; xmlns:meta="http://openoffice.org/2000/meta"; xmlns:number="http://openoffice.org/2000/datastyle"; xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns:chart="http://openoffice.org/2000/chart"; xmlns:dr3d="http://openoffice.org/2000/dr3d"; xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"; xmlns:form="http://openoffice.org/2000/form"; xmlns:script="http://openoffice.org/2000/script"; xmlns:config="http://openoffice.org/2001/config"; office:class="text" office:version="1.0"> The document also contains an OLE object. This means that the document contains the XML code of another document. So you can find another <office:document> tag inside the document. It looks like this: <office:document xmlns:office="http://openoffice.org/2000/office"; xmlns:style="http://openoffice.org/2000/style"; xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"; xmlns:table="http://openoffice.org/2000/table"; xmlns:draw="http://openoffice.org/2000/drawing"; xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; xmlns:meta="http://openoffice.org/2000/meta"; xmlns:number="http://openoffice.org/2000/datastyle"; xmlns:presentation="http://openoffice.org/2000/presentation"; xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns:chart="http://openoffice.org/2000/chart"; xmlns:dr3d="http://openoffice.org/2000/dr3d"; xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"; xmlns:form="http://openoffice.org/2000/form"; xmlns:script="http://openoffice.org/2000/script"; xmlns:config="http://openoffice.org/2001/config"; office:class="drawing" office:version="1.0"> It's nearly the same. It additionally contains the xmlns:presentation attribute and the value of office:class is "drawing" instead of "text". When I'm parsing the document with dom4j and Xerces and writing it back to a file without editing the Document the OLE object isn't visilble anymore. This is caused because all duplicate namespaces in the second <office:document> tag disappeared. It looks like this: <office:document xmlns:presentation="http://openoffice.org/2000/presentation"; office:class="drawing" office:version="1.0"> When I add the lost namespaces manually the OLE object is visible. So it seems that OpenOffice.org needs those duplicate namespaces at the second <office:document> tag. How can I force dom4j not to remove those namespaces??? I use this easy code: SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); Document docu = reader.read("/tmp/MyFile.fsxw"); // fsxw is the file extension for OpenOffice.org flat xml files FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter("/tmp/NewFile.fsxw"); BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter); docu.write(bufferedWriter); bufferedWriter.close(); The result is the same when using an XMLWriter object to write the Document. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
