Bug 50095 - FILESAVE: missing tabulators when saveAs Office 2003 XML
Summary: FILESAVE: missing tabulators when saveAs Office 2003 XML
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.3 release
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: MSO-XML2003
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Reported: 2012-05-18 06:56 UTC by Michael Kleidt
Modified: 2023-11-21 03:12 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
original ODT file (12.96 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2012-05-18 06:56 UTC, Michael Kleidt
Details
saveAs Office2003 XML result (14.96 KB, text/xml)
2012-05-18 06:57 UTC, Michael Kleidt
Details

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Description Michael Kleidt 2012-05-18 06:56:37 UTC
Created attachment 61805 [details]
original ODT file

When I save a document which uses TAB to indent as Office 2003 XML, the result contains no tabulators. See attachments:

The original ODT document with indents.

The result of "saveAs Office 2003 XML" without indents.
Comment 1 Michael Kleidt 2012-05-18 06:57:17 UTC
Created attachment 61806 [details]
saveAs Office2003 XML result
Comment 2 bfoman (inactive) 2012-11-05 17:05:50 UTC
Confirmed with:
LO 3.6.3.2
Build ID: 58f22d5
Windows XP Professional SP3

Load 2003 xml with indents, save as 2003 xml, reload. Indents are lost.
Comment 3 Michael Kleidt 2013-07-26 15:12:35 UTC
Confirmed behavior with LO 4.1.0.4 under Windows XP.
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2015-04-01 14:40:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Michael Kleidt 2015-04-01 15:40:04 UTC
Confirmed behavior with LO 4.4.0.3 under Windows 7.

The problem is, that TAB-characters are simply ignored in LO output.
If you have a text "foo bar" where both words are separated by a tabulator, the XML output must contain somthing like:

<w:p [...]>
  [...]
  <w:r>
    <w:t>foo</w:t><w:tab/><w:t>bar</w:t>
  </w:r>
</w:p>

But today the tabulators (<w:tab/>) are simply missing. You only find <w:tabs> for the tabulator definitions.
Comment 6 Michael Kleidt 2015-04-01 15:56:17 UTC
Confirmed behavior with LO 4.4.1.2 under Windows 7.

<w:tab/> are still missing ;-)
Comment 7 tommy27 2016-04-16 07:26:55 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Michael Kleidt 2016-04-18 07:31:54 UTC
Confirmed behavior with LibreOffice/5.1.0.3 under Windows 7.

<w:tab/> are still missing ;-)
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2017-05-22 13:23:13 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 Michael Kleidt 2017-05-22 14:55:44 UTC
Confirm with:
LO 5.3.2.2 (x64)
Windows 6.1

Saved File is identical except of

<o:Editor dt:dt="string">LibreOffice/3.5$Windows_x86 LibreOffice_project/235ab8a-3802056-4a8fed3-2d66ea8-e241b80</o:Editor>

changed to 

<o:Editor dt:dt="string">LibreOffice/5.3.2.2$Windows_X86_64 LibreOffice_project/6cd4f1ef626f15116896b1d8e1398b56da0d0ee1</o:Editor>

;-)
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2018-11-17 03:46:23 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Michael Kleidt 2018-11-19 09:48:14 UTC
I try to reproduce the error, but there is a new regression error:

* Open attached document "tabulator original.odt".
* SaveAs "Word 2003 XML" file.
* "Use Word 2003 XML Format"
-> Error Dialog:
Error saving the document tabulator:
Write Error.
The file could not be written.

This is even worst!

Affected version:
Version: 6.1.1.2 (x64)
Build ID: 5d19a1bfa650b796764388cd8b33a5af1f5baa1b
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; 
Locale: de-CH (de_CH); Calc: group threaded
Comment 13 QA Administrators 2019-11-20 03:51:03 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 14 Michael Kleidt 2019-11-20 08:57:03 UTC
The regression error (error dialog on saving tabs) introduced with Version 6.1.1.2 (x64) no longer exists (see comment 12).

But the original error (missing tabs) still exists in
Version: 6.3.3.2 (x64)
Build ID: a64200df03143b798afd1ec74a12ab50359878ed
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; 
Locale: de-CH (de_CH); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 15 QA Administrators 2021-11-20 04:07:06 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 16 QA Administrators 2023-11-21 03:12:23 UTC
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