Hi Alex, Have you filed a feature request for this? It sounds useful.
Paul On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:08:15 +0100 Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 03/11/2013 20:47, Mario Splivalo a écrit : > > > Hi Mario, > > It is unfortunate, but Excel does a far better job of > importing/opening random XML files than LO. I download XML files from > a public administration I work with, and in Excel I can just open > them by double-clicking on them. Excel creates an on-the-fly ad-hoc > namespace for the document if it doesn't recognize the namespace of > the XML or doesn't have an import filter for it, and also preserves > the tree structure of the elements and attributes, using the elements > as filter headers. Quite simply put, this is brilliant. > > LO, on the otherhand, imports everything as simple text and dumps it > willy-nilly into the spreadsheet in the first column, losing all > element/attribute information. If you want the same thing in LO, you > have to design and implement a separate XSLT filter for each XML type > that you want to open... > > > > Alex > > > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
