Michael Beddow wrote:
>
> 2. A lot of the spade-work for OO 1.x to TEI mapping via XSLT has been
> admirably done by Sebastian, and his sheets for that purpose are still a
> valuable starting point for anyone who wants to use this approach.
>
you make me sound like something from a previous age.
The filters at http://www.tei-c.org/Software/teioo/ are fully
up to date with OO 2 and recently tested. No, I don't
guarentee they work for your document :-{
> but there seems to be something amiss with the implementation of XSLT
> filtering in OO2 that causes some types of user-defined filters of any
> complexity to crash or produce incorrect output.
I agree. All is not right in there. Its _very_ sensitive,
and seldom gives a decent error message.

I have noticed that if you delete a filter and add it again,
OO gets confused about the size of the file, and claims the
XSL is not well-formed. Moral - delete the files by hand from
your ~/.openoffice.org2 directory.
> However, external XSLT can
> still be used on ODT output from OO.
>
yes. and you can get a single flat XML file from OO by implementing a
simple filter
which says

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
  </xsl:template>

This is excellent for debugging on the command-line

> 2. Pace the anti-all-things-from-Redmond people on this list, there is a lot
> to be said for MS Word 2003
I agree with that too.

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