Comment 55 for bug 91759

(In reply to comment #27)
> MinGW Master "LibO-dev 3.5.0 – WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) English UI [(Build ID:
> 2ba5d12-e8c71c5-41e7bcd-4b83b90)]
> (daily/MinGW_cross-compilation2011-10-25_00.12.09)"
> shows an "General Input/Output Error" 90 seconds after I started opening
> attached sample document. What ever that might mean.
>
> @Bjoern
> I agree, this one is not really fixed, The patch might be useful to prevent
> LibO from hanging, but it's not a real solution of the problem.

Hi all,

I tried to summarize the current status in comment #20: it's fixed with respect to hanging LibO (and thus potentially losing changes), but not regarding the broken Excel2003ML import filter. I'd still suggest to file a new bug for the broken excel 2003 xml import. As an alternative, we could change the subject to remove the dreaded HANG keyword (because it no longer hangs :-)

I stopped working on the issue both because of limited ability and uncertainty about the gravity of the remaining problem: Excel2003 XML should be quickly diminishing in use.

Really fixing the problem would at least require to develop and extension function for libxslt or saxon that allows to calculate the cell position in the sheet, whatever the remaining shortcomings of that particular import filter are.

What about moving the filter out to an extension? We'd loose word2003/excel2003 impex in the core, but the support is really limited currently and it'd be easier to explain the limitations to sb who deliberately installs the filter extension?