Re: [dev] relative hyperlinks become absolute when document is saved
Andreas Harnack wrote: Hi, It seems impossible in OpenOffice to assign a relative URL to a hypertext link; the link is transformed into an absolute URL while saving or loading the document. I came across the problem while working on a little project that uses OpenOffice Basic macros which try to read the hyperlink URL from a text portion. I expected to get the URL as I typed it into the input formed but I did not. To reproduce the problem - create a new empty Writer document, - insert a hypertext link (Insert Hyperlink from the menu bar or Hyperlink from the Toolbar) - enter as target a relative URL starting with the current directory (like ./file.txt), - Apply and Close the dialogue, - open the Navigator and check the target URL of the link just created, it should be as entered, - save and close the file (any name will do) - reopen the file, open the Navigator and check the URL of the link you entered above: The URL as changed to something like file://C://file.txt The same absolute URL is seen in from within a macro. The 'Save URLs relative to' 'File system' and 'Internet' options have both been set. I'm currently using 2.4 under Windows XP and 2.3 under Suse 10.3 but previous versions showed the same behaviour. There are several issues reporting similar behaviour in other circumstances: - 56629 (also duplicate 61484) for exporting documents to PDF - 31267 for exporting Writer documents to .doc format - 22050 and 22107 for saving hyperlinks in spreadsheets A slightly different yet probably related issues might be 43369 (also duplicates 68250, 80560) for importing .doc file in Writer. Issue 56629 is reported to be fixed by a new feature in 2.4, issues 31267 and 43369 are still open. To me it looks like all these issues are related. My guess is, that at some point while storing and/or loading a document any hyperlink URL is transformed to be absolute one, thereby losing the information, how it originally has been entered by the user. Instead, OpenOffice controls the format of a URL by several options. Now finally my questions: Does anybody know whether my assumptions are correct? Assuming they are, why is done the way it is? I think your assumptions are correct. Historically, OOo has stored URLs as instances of INetURLObject (tools/urlobj.hxx), which only supports absolute URLs (there are various functions that take textual input, but ultimately they all result in an absolute INetURLObject). No clear idea why it was originally done that way, though. -Stephan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] relative hyperlinks become absolute when document is saved
Hi, It seems impossible in OpenOffice to assign a relative URL to a hypertext link; the link is transformed into an absolute URL while saving or loading the document. I came across the problem while working on a little project that uses OpenOffice Basic macros which try to read the hyperlink URL from a text portion. I expected to get the URL as I typed it into the input formed but I did not. To reproduce the problem - create a new empty Writer document, - insert a hypertext link (Insert Hyperlink from the menu bar or Hyperlink from the Toolbar) - enter as target a relative URL starting with the current directory (like ./file.txt), - Apply and Close the dialogue, - open the Navigator and check the target URL of the link just created, it should be as entered, - save and close the file (any name will do) - reopen the file, open the Navigator and check the URL of the link you entered above: The URL as changed to something like file://C://file.txt The same absolute URL is seen in from within a macro. The 'Save URLs relative to' 'File system' and 'Internet' options have both been set. I'm currently using 2.4 under Windows XP and 2.3 under Suse 10.3 but previous versions showed the same behaviour. There are several issues reporting similar behaviour in other circumstances: - 56629 (also duplicate 61484) for exporting documents to PDF - 31267 for exporting Writer documents to .doc format - 22050 and 22107 for saving hyperlinks in spreadsheets A slightly different yet probably related issues might be 43369 (also duplicates 68250, 80560) for importing .doc file in Writer. Issue 56629 is reported to be fixed by a new feature in 2.4, issues 31267 and 43369 are still open. To me it looks like all these issues are related. My guess is, that at some point while storing and/or loading a document any hyperlink URL is transformed to be absolute one, thereby losing the information, how it originally has been entered by the user. Instead, OpenOffice controls the format of a URL by several options. Now finally my questions: Does anybody know whether my assumptions are correct? Assuming they are, why is done the way it is? If it in deed turns out to be the root cause of the problems above: is there a chance to revise it and how expensive would that be? Should I log an issue for it and if yes, what would be the best way to bundle all the related issues? Thanks for your help, Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
