report on calligra filters generating invalid ODF

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Thu Dec 8 09:38:52 GMT 2011


On Saturday 03 December 2011 Dec, Jos van den Oever wrote:
> Since yesterday, the script profileOfficeFileLoading.py checks the output of the 
> calligra filters for the validity of the ODF that is generated. This test has 
> proven it's usefullness immediately. Here are the numbers of files from the 
> calligratests set for each file type:
> 
> doc	30	653
> docx	115	364
> odp	1	11
> ods	61	178
> odt	31	235
> ppt	70	632
> pptx	279	279
> xls	399	652
> xlsx	305	305
> 
> source: http://158.36.191.251:8080/
> 
> For nearly half of the files in the test set there is a serious error. The 
> number of bugs that is causing these errors is probably not so high; it should 
> be relatively simple to get these numbers down.
> 
> Especially the filters for pptx and xlsx are important. For those filters, each 
> converted file has a problem.

Outch... 

> 
> To help fix these problems, you can use calligraconverter and validateODF.py. 
> E.g. like so:
>   calligraconverter me07_asin_function.xlsx out.ods
>   validateODF out.ods
> 



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Boudewijn Rempt
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