LO 6+ missing File.Save.As 'Microsoft Word 2003 XML'

[mkhomo]

The last time Writer.File.SaveAs.‘MSWord 2003 XML’ (.XML) was available in Writer was LO Version 5.X.

MSWord 2003 XML was(is) the only transparent export and dropping that in the name of remote access protocols is not the wisest move in the founding Star Office / Open Office / Libre Office vision.

If its is gone forever from File menu then can it be made available as a plugin emitter / export choice or stand-alone?

I cannot imagine the usefulness of moving from .XML to .DOCX which has been fraught with internal contradiction.

[mikekaganski]

MSWord 2003 XML was(is) the only reliable export

I laughed, thanks. But I seem to find it in all versions - including current master:

Just in case, I have checked in all major releases from 6.0 till 7.1.

[mikekaganski]

MSWord 2003 XML was(is) the only transparent export

Oh that edit made things slightly better. Indeed, the question is still funny (since the wanted export is indeed there, as I shown above, and never was removed or replaced), but actually the real transparent export is and always was to the native ODF format - namely, if one wants unpacked XML file format, that’s FODT that not only is “transparent”, but also lossless (since it is native).

Yes I know there are several problems with that, but they are not nearly as numerous as with Word XML.

[mikekaganski]

/me wanted to mention .TXT, but decides to keep silent

[mkhomo]

There’s plenty philosophical issues being raised here. Remember, Star was co-opted into late Sun Micro when its desktop MSO license burden became intolerable. But Star was conceived as open compatible equivalent of MSO (dual direction) offerings.

Opting for FODT as ‘standard’ data bus creates new unintended incompatabilities …

In afterthought, I should contribute my humble XSLT transforms to bypass the notion of 2003xml dependence. I use them to convert DOC forms(as per MSW) into DB schemas …

[mikekaganski]

If its is gone forever from File menu then can it be made available as a plugin emitter / export choice or stand-alone?

Answer to this paradox of material implication in, naturally, “yes”.

[mkhomo]

Heh heh! If only all paradoxes of material import resolved with an easy Yes…then Happiness would be boring and out of style.

[mkhomo]

OK. I should have checked one last time before asking in desperation since my Wife’s notebook just got a Win8.1 => Win10 involuntary makeover and as you show in LO Master channel LO 7.1.2.2 (x64) indeed does have that. I unfortunately cannot recreate the earlier image on Win8.1 which didn’t.

But I still have a LIVE LO (CentOS 8 amd64) with what I was describing:

“Version: 6.3.6.2
Build ID: 6.3.6.2-3.el8
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3;
Locale: en-ZA (en_ZA.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded”
Whose SaveAs format list is this paparazzi shot (On Linux it doesn’t hang around for pics)

:

[mikekaganski]

I tried with LibreOffice 6.4 on Ubuntu 20.04 (installed from apt):

As you can see, the option is there. All that I can tell is that your issue is not about LibreOffice, but about RedHat packaging, or something like that. I suggest you to try packages provided by TDF (from Download LibreOffice | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft), to make sure if this is about packaging. If you want, you may even compare same version, available at Index of /libreoffice/old.

[mikekaganski]

I unfortunately cannot recreate the earlier image on Win8.1 which didn’t.

As I told you, I have tested all major versions (namely, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1) to be sure that we didn’t have a version without that filter. We didn’t.

FTR, here is how it shows in version 6.3 from TDF on Windows 8.1: