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Word-Processor File-Types for Scripting

Posted 05-29-2019 at 06:30 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 09-19-2020 at 01:46 AM by Michael Uplawski (SoftMaker Office 2021 has improved xml standard-compliance)

Tags abiword, ooxml, opendocument, xml

The Big Unification

Current Word-processors read and write different XML-based file-formats. The standards which are more or less implemented by these programs, are OOXML and/or OpenDocument. I write “more or less”, because for diverse reasons, Office-suites differ in the way that they compose documents of one certain type. The variations can result in a completely valid document or one that diverts from the standard and the existing schema-definitions (xsd). There is always the risk that

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Michael Uplawski

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XML - beautifying

Posted 04-02-2014 at 07:19 AM by sashi_hc
Updated 04-02-2014 at 10:05 AM by sashi_hc

Tags beautify, format, readable, xml, xmllint

You want to make your XML more readable
You have just extracted an XML from a source and it is all un-indented and so not very readable. That happens in my workplace where a single XML can be many MBs in size.

Using xmllint
xmllint --format <your_existing_xml_file_name> > new_xml_file_name

If you do not have xmllint installed, you have the perl method. This is slower, but works the same. This is not my code but see the author info. Works good.
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sashi_hc

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