https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166991
Bug ID: 166991
Summary: Do not fail importing (F)ODTs with a twice-defined
attribute
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: filters and storage
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Sometimes - due to manual editing, mis-copy-pasting, or tool failure - we may
encounter an FODT (or ODT) with an XML element that has the same attribute
defined twice.
Yes, that is certainly an error; but - it is very easy to recover from, since
the syntactic structure of the XML is respected.
LO currently refuses to open such a file, emits an error and gives up.
Instead, we should - either by user authorization or by default - try to
recover from this situation and continue opening the file.
The obvious recovery strategy is to let the later re-definition of the
attribute override the earlier one. But - it would not be terrible if
re-definitions would be ignored.
As I am not much of an FODT smith, I would appreciate a minimal example of
this. (Or - I could upload a very-non-minimal example.)
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