I have been over the weekend at the FOSDEM so I am just now stumbled over the emails.
1) First of all, you might use XSLT directly on the zipped XML by using the ODF XSLT Runner:
You will then use relative references to the styles.xml and meta.xml file.
2) I am afraid you are right, the narrative description of the elements in the ODF specificationÂ
do not cover the semantics of the XML grammar: http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-schema.rng
(You might want to browse the folder to see all documentation:Âhttp://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/)
You will find no "optional", "choice" nor "sequence" covered by it.Â
But when looking on the XML grammar file providing this information, you will find out it is relatively hard to read.Â
You need to searchÂfor "define name="table-table" to see the definition of <table:table>
and look at "table-columns-and-groups", take a look at "table-columns-no-group", "table-columns"...
ÂÂÂÂ<defineÂname="table-columns-and-groups">
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ<oneOrMore>
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ<choice>
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ<refÂname="table-table-column-group"/>
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ<refÂname="table-columns-no-group"/>
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ</choice>
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ</oneOrMore>
ÂÂÂÂ</define>
ÂÂÂÂ<defineÂname="table-columns-no-group">
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ<choice>
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ<group>
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ<refÂname="table-columns"/>
The text file has over 18.000 lines, therefore questions such as: "Do a valid ODF document exist, where an <text:p> element can be nested within another <text:p> element?" are quite hard to answer. Therefore I have loaded the XML grammar into a Graph to answer such questions and create better documentation and source code.
Unfortunately, the work is not finished, but opensource as part of the ODF Toolkit.Â
The graph is so big with about 600 elements and 1600 attributes.
Therefore I split it into a graph for each XML element just big enough to see the child elements:
You may find the GraphML snippets as part of the ODF Toolkit 1.0.0 branch.
See more details on the slides of my last LibreOffice conference talk.
Or in general at the slides ofÂhttps://github.com/tdf/odftoolkit/blob/master/docs/docs/presentations/Â
I might have met a graph company from London willing to assist me with this task.
I am doing an ODF Toolkit release likely this month, but have to write further documentation before the release.
The current development site (esp. the "fake" release, with no release) was just for reviewing purpose.
Best work on the 1.0.0_SNAPSHOT branch, only there the graph functionality had been added:
Hope you are at the start of a great week!
SvanteÂ
PS: We had once somewhere an ODF grammar file, where the user was reading not an ODF RelaxNG text file, but HTML file, which was providing links & references.
By this, you could at least jump quickly around through the grammar. We should indeed provide this at least. :-)