Download version of 6 Nov 2005
This is an alpha version of a stylesheet that converts the content.xml of an OpenDocument text file to XHTML. It is intended to give you a reasonable idea of what the file looks like, not to do a completely accurate job of rendering the file.
Because this stylesheet looks only at the content.xml file, it cannot completely represent the style information of the document, some of which resides in the styles.xml file. Because it is constructing only a single XHTML output file, it does not include images.
You can’t just run this stylesheet against an .odt file
with a typical transformation program because the OpenDocument file is in
a .zip format. Instead, you need a special program that can read directly
from the compressed file. That program is ODTransform.java.
This program should work with any package that implements the
java.xml.transform API, but has been tested only with
Xalan. The
odtransform.sh shell file shows its invocation with the
Xalan libraries; change the paths to match your Xalan installation.
To convert the file testfile.odt to testfile.xhtml, you would enter this at the command line:
./odtransform.sh -inOD testfile.odt -in content.xml -out testfile.xhtml
FYI: Here are the usage instructions for the ODTransform program.
Usage: ODTransform options Options: -in inputFilename -xsl transformFilename -out outputFilename If the input filename is within an OpenDocument file, then: -inOD inputOpenDocFileName If you wish to output an OpenDocument file, then: -outOD outputOpenDocumentFileName Option names are case-insensitive.