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Asked: 2026-06-14T14:21:38+00:00

I’m using odt file as some kind of template and Libre Office as tool

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I’m using odt file as some kind of template and Libre Office as tool to create this template. It usually works fine except one thing.

Let assume our odt file has a paragraph of text.

There is my text.

XML file may or may not look (seems random) like this (messy, not very good thing for for parsing or as a template):

<text:p text:style-name="P7">There is</text:p><text:p text:style-name="P7"> my text<text:p text:style-name="P7">.</text:p></text:p>

Sometimes it’s (again seems random) like this (expected result, makes sense after all):

<text:p text:style-name="P7">There is my text.</text:p>

Is there any way to get rid superfluous xml tags? Or at least can user see a raw document in LibreOffice/OpenOffice to manually remove redundancy?

The key is to provide easy tool for a user, to detect and fix artefacts like this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you tried Ctrl-M? If all formatting is defined in styles and style formatting is not manually overridden, it should not disturb the formatting but should remove redundant tags.

    A tedious user process would be to cut and paste-special as text and apply style again.

    Finally, a macro would definitely do the trick.

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