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Anyone has an idea about the customize content to content.xml is allowed or not. I am unable to find much information about this. Any help will be appreciated.

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Har21t

Anyone has an idea about the customize content to content.xml is allowed or not. I am unable to find much information about this. Any help will be appreciated.

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... customize content to content.xml is allowed or not

It's allowed, of course, but manipulations may damage the file and foil correct loading.

Please find the specifications here: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/t ... rev=office.

(My only experiences concerned repairs to files corrupted by tracking changes during a time of spooking through the MS universe, some additional repairs, and removing of content protection. Not much, but things that cannot be done in a different way. In the few mentioned cases I used Notepad++ and its XML-tools plugin.)

maybe it will help you:

https://pypi.org/project/odfpy/

Do not touch content.xml.

If you want to create customised content use a template - that is what a template is designed to do. See the Writer Guide for information about templates.

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1 - Introducing Writer
2 - Setting up Writer
3 - Working with Text
4 - Formatting Pages
5 - Printing, Exporting, Faxing and E-Mailing
6 - Introduction to Styles
7 - Working with Styles
8 - Working with Graphics
9 - Working with Tables
10 - Working with Templates
11 - Using Mail Merge
12 - Tables of Contents, Indexes and Bibliographies
13 - Working with Master Documents
14 - Working with Fields
15 - Using Forms in Writer
16 - Customizing Writer – Keyboard shortcuts.

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Hi, and welcome to the forum.

Har21t wrote:Anyone has an idea about the customize content to content.xml is allowed or not.

File → Properties → Custom Properties

If this solved your problem please go to your first post use the Edit button and add [Solved] to the start of the title. You can select the green checkmark icon at the same time.

If you were to embed XML code in content.xml, content.xml should be run through an XML validator beforeclosing the OO archive; such manual embedding should be tried only on a copy on your file.

MrProgrammer wrote:File → Properties → Custom Properties

A quick check shows that data inserted by File > Properties > Custom Properties is stored in styles.xml in the ZIP wrapper.

Just for clarification in case one ever needs this, John, do you know if all field data is contained in styles.xml