Michal --
You write:
>> Usually the problem can be found in the temporary xml
>> file (content.xml, perhaps) using something like xmllint,
>> and often the problem is a misconstructed piece of xml,
>> which in some cases is easy to correct by hand.
>
> maybe we should modify the oolatex script to invoke
> xmllint or tidy before it starts extracting code with
> xtpipes. but it would mean that users need to install
> these programs.
"xmlwf" (expat) might be sufficient in most cases and is not
much of an installation burden.
-- Bill