In a message dated 2009.04.11 03:23 -0500, Drew Jensen wrote:
(2) How does one go about getting/making a filter for a Base file?
With the 3.0 release of OO.o the format of Base files changed so as to
conform to the ODF 1.2 Database Front-end file specification.
OO.o 2.4.1 can read, but not save as, this new file format. If you try
to open a Base file created, or saved, with 3.0 or newer using a version
of OO.o older then 2.4.1 you will get that filter dialog as it simply
doesn't (and couldn't) recognize the newer format.
Thanks, Drew, but that's not the case here. The file was created in 3.0.1,
which then could not read it.
... the current specification of the file format at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/31679/OpenDocument-v1.2-committeeDraft-01.pdf
The Database Front-End document spec. is covered in Chapter 11.
As for writing your own filter, all I can offer is a link to this page:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice_filters_using_the_XML_based_file_format
Actually, when I asked "How does one go about getting/making a filter for a
Base file?", I was not so much thinking of getting into the business of
writing filters as learning (a) the structure of the Base file; (b) the
structure of a filter; (c) what is involved in adding the filter to the
Selection Filters list. All of those things would be enlightening WRT the
current problem, but I don't fancy becoming an OO contributor (yet). For
now I would be content to know that OO will be an adequate office partner -
and that, when there are problems, there are reliable mechanisms for
addressing them.
If you try to open the file with an archive tool does that work?
Yes, and everything looks OK - meaning that all of the expecting files and
folders are there, the structure is there, and the data file is empty
because there are yet no records. Interestingly, what began as a 45KB file
(much too big for a file with no records) before unzipping becomes only 4KB
when re-zipped, but still OO does not recognize it. I think I'm going to
write this off as not worth pursuing further at this time, because my intent
at this point is to *use* OO, not to work on it.
IAC, your references have shed some insight on this, even if I need to file
them away for the most part, rather than diving in to the end. Thanks for
another thoughtful reply,
John
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