# OOo and regexp

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**Created:** [December 3, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ooo-and-regexp/78186 "2006-12-03T18:01:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ooo-and-regexp/78186/1 "2006-12-03T18:01:01Z")

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[novice]  
Hi,

Paul L. suggested that I give more detail about my problem. Ok,  
here it is:

BACKGROUND:  
Save a small document in OOo format, like a bibliographic entry with,  
say, the article title in bold and the journal in italics

- under options - save → disable xml size optimization
- save the file
- copy the file to a subdirectory
- run “unzip filename”

content.xml has the data we want to convert to TeX. A sample  
content.xml is given at the end of this message, after the script.

RUBY: I have a script provided by a colleague that does a lot of the  
work needed to convert this to a sane ConTeXt file. I am trying to  
teach myself enough ruby to edit this script as needed for academic  
articles (I edit an academic journal in TeX). The script is reproduced  
at the end of this message.

PROBLEMS: Yesterday I did learn about regexp and made progress, though  
the script is still buggy:

i) In the script (l. 110–112) I have

# =========== str.gsub!(/"(.\*?)"/) do ‘\quotation {’ + $1 + ‘}’ end

but line 114 of content.xml the " pair is not converted, though  
it is converted elsewhere.

ii) (really weird) In the script (l. 45–47) I have

# ============ @data.gsub!(/[\<(text:sequence text:ref-name=“refAutoNr0”)._?\>._?\</text:sequence\>/mois) do ‘\startitemize’ + ‘\head’ end

This apparently works fine. Now I want some linespace between  
‘\startitemize’ & ‘\head’, so I put a “\n\n” in between them. This  
causes the xml tags to appear in the output file like this

============  
\<text:p text:style-name=“ID”\>\startitemize

# \head\</text:p\>

iii) any tips for improving this script are appreciated. I’m sure I’ll  
have more questions over the next couple of days as I work on this.

Thank you all in advance for any help or pointers for this novice 🙂

Best  
Idris

================idris.rb==============  
class OpenOffice

```
 # using an xml parser if overkill and we need to regexp anyway

 attr_reader :display, :inline, :translate
 attr_writer :display, :inline, :translate

 def initialize
     @data = nil
     @file = ''
     @display = Hash.new
     @inline = Hash.new
     @translate = Hash.new
 end

 def load(filename)
     if not filename.empty? and FileTest.file?(filename) then
         begin
             @data, @file = IO.read(filename), filename
         rescue
             @data, @file = nil, ''
         end
     else
         @data, @file = nil, ''
     end
 end

 def save(filename='')
     if filename.empty? then
         filename = "clean-#{@file}.tex"
     end
     if f = open(filename,'w') then
         f.puts(@data)
         f.close
     end
 end

 def convert
     @translations = Hash.new
     @translate.each do |k,v|
         @translations[/#{k}/] = v
     end
     if @data then
         @data.gsub!(/\[<(text:sequence

```

text:ref-name=“refAutoNr0”)._?\>._?\</text:sequence\>/mois) do  
‘\startitemize’ + “\n\n” + ‘\head’ # + “\n\n”  
end  
@data.gsub!(/[\</(text:span)\>\<(text:sequence  
text:ref-name=“refAutoNr[^0]._?")._?\>._?\</text:sequence\>/mois) do  
‘\head’  
end  
 @data.gsub!(/[\<(text:sequence  
text:ref-name="refAutoNr[^0]._?”)._?\>._?\</text:sequence\>/mois) do  
‘\head’  
end  
@data.gsub!(/._?\<(office:text)._?\>(._?)\</\1\>._/mois) do  
‘\enableregime[utf]’ + “\n” + ‘\useencoding[cyr]’ + “\n\n” +  
‘\definetypeface [russian]’  
+ “\n” + ’ ’ + ‘[rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default]  
[encoding=t2a]’ + “\n\n” +  
‘\starttext’+ “\n\n” + ‘\switchtobodyfont[russian]’ + “\n” + $2 +  
“\n” +   
‘\stopitemize’ + “\n\n” + ‘\stoptext’  
end

@data.gsub!(/\<(office:font-face-decls|office:automatic-styles|text:sequence-decls)._?\>._?\</\1\>/mois)  
do  
# remove  
end  
# @data.gsub!(/\<(text:span  
text:style-name=“T10”)\>(._?)\</text:span\>/mois) do  
# ‘{’ + '\bf ’ + $2 + ‘}’  
# end  
# @data.gsub!(/\<(text:span  
text:style-name=“Style2”)\>(._?)\</text:span\>/mois) do  
# ‘{’ + '\it ’ + $2 + ‘}’  
# end

@data.gsub!(/text:span.\*?text:style-name=([\'\"])(.\*?)\1(._?)\</text:span\>/)  
do  
tag, text = $2, $3  
if inline[tag] then  
(inline[tag][0]||‘’) + clean\_display(text) +  
(inline[tag][1]||‘’)  
else  
clean\_display(text)  
end  
end  
 @data.gsub!(/text:span.\*?text:style-name=(“.\*?”)/) do  
# remove  
end  
 @data.gsub!(/\<?._??\>/) do  
# remove  
end  
@data.gsub!(//) do  
# remove  
end  
@data.gsub!(/text:p[^]\*?/\>/) do  
# remove  
end

@data.gsub!(/text:p.\*?text:style-name=([\'\"])(.\*?)\1(.\*?)\</text:p\>/)  
do  
tag, text = $2, $3  
if display[tag] then  
“\n” + (display[tag][0]||‘’) + clean\_inline(text)

- (display[tag][1]||‘’) + “\n”  
else  
“\n” + clean\_inline(text) + “\n”  
end  
end  
@data.gsub!(/text:s[^]_?/\>/) do  
# remove  
end  
 @data.gsub!(/text:bookmark[^]_?/\>/) do  
# remove  
end  
@data.gsub!(/\t/,’ ‘)  
@data.gsub!(/^ +$/,’')  
@data.gsub!(/\n\n+/moi,“\n\n”)  
end  
end

end

def convert(filename)

```
 doc = OpenOffice.new

 doc.display['P1'] = ['\chapter{','}']
 doc.display['P2'] = ['\start'+"\n","\n"+'\stop']
 doc.display['P3'] = doc.display['P2']
# doc.display['ID'] = ['\relax']

 doc.inline['T1'] = ['','']
 doc.inline['T2'] = ['','']
doc.inline['T3'] = ['{\bf ','}']
doc.inline['T6'] = ['{\bf ','}']
doc.inline['T8'] = ['{\bf ','}']
doc.inline['T10'] = ['{\bf ','}']
doc.inline['T11'] = ['{\bf ','}']
doc.inline['Style2'] = ['{\it ','}']

 # doc.translate['¬'] = 'XX'
doc.translate['&apos;'] = '`'
doc.translate['&amp;'] = '\&'

 doc.load(filename)

 doc.convert

 doc.save

```

end

filename = ARGV[0]

filename = ‘content.xml’ if not filename or filename.empty?

convert(‘content.xml’)  
===========content.xml============

 \<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\>

\<office:document-content  
xmlns:office=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0”  
xmlns:style=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:style:1.0”  
xmlns:text=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0”  
xmlns:table=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:table:1.0”  
xmlns:draw=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:drawing:1.0”  
xmlns:fo=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:xsl-fo-compatible:1.0”  
xmlns:xlink=“[XLink namespace](http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink)”  
xmlns:dc=“[DCMI: DCMI Metadata Terms](http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/)”  
xmlns:meta=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:meta:1.0”  
xmlns:number=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:datastyle:1.0”  
xmlns:svg=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:svg-compatible:1.0”  
xmlns:chart=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:chart:1.0”  
xmlns:dr3d=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:dr3d:1.0”  
xmlns:math=“[MathML Namespace](http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML)”  
xmlns:form=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:form:1.0”  
xmlns:script=“urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:script:1.0”  
xmlns:ooo=“[http://openoffice.org/2004/office](http://openoffice.org/2004/office)”  
xmlns:ooow=“[http://openoffice.org/2004/writer](http://openoffice.org/2004/writer)”  
xmlns:oooc=“[http://openoffice.org/2004/calc](http://openoffice.org/2004/calc)”  
xmlns:dom=“[XML Events namespace](http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events)”  
xmlns:xforms=“[XForms Namespace](http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms)”  
xmlns:xsd=“[XML Schema](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema)”  
xmlns:xsi=“[http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance)”  
office:version=“1.0”\>  
office:scripts/  
office:font-face-decls  
\<style:font-face style:name=“Wingdings” svg:font-family=“Wingdings”  
style:font-pitch=“variable” style:font-charset=“x-symbol”/\>  
\<style:font-face style:name=“Symbol” svg:font-family=“Symbol”  
style:font-family-generic=“roman” style:font-pitch=“variable”  
style:font-charset=“x-symbol”/\>  
\<style:font-face style:name=“Tahoma2” svg:font-family=“Tahoma”/\>  
\<style:font-face style:name=“Arial Unicode MS”  
svg:font-family=“'Arial Unicode MS'”  
style:font-pitch=“variable”/\>  
\<style:font-face style:name=“MS Mincho” svg:font-family=“'MS  
Mincho'” style:font-pitch=“variable”/\>  
\<style:font-face style:name=“Tahoma1” svg:font-family=“Tahoma”  
style:font-pitch=“variable”/\>  
\<style:font-face style:name=“Garamond” svg:font-family=“Garamond”  
style:font-family-generic=“roman” style:font-pitch=“variable”/\>  
\<style:font-face style:name=“Times New Roman”  
svg:font-family=“'Times New Roman'”  
style:font-family-generic=“roman” style:font-pitch=“variable”/\>  
\<style:font-face style:name=“Arial” svg:font-family=“Arial”  
style:font-family-generic=“swiss” style:font-pitch=“variable”/\>  
\<style:font-face style:name=“Tahoma” svg:font-family=“Tahoma”  
style:font-family-generic=“swiss” style:font-pitch=“variable”/\>  
\</office:font-face-decls\>  
office:automatic-styles  
\<style:style style:name=“P1” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“Standard”  
style:master-page-name=“First\_20\_Page”\>  
\<style:paragraph-properties fo:text-align=“center”  
style:justify-single-word=“false”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“P2” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“Standard”\>  
\<style:paragraph-properties fo:text-align=“center”  
style:justify-single-word=“false”/\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:font-size=“14pt” fo:font-weight=“bold”  
style:font-size-asian=“14pt” style:font-weight-asian=“bold”  
style:font-size-complex=“14pt” style:font-weight-complex=“bold”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“P3” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“Standard”\>  
\<style:paragraph-properties fo:text-align=“center”  
style:justify-single-word=“false”/\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:font-size=“18pt” fo:font-weight=“bold”  
style:font-size-asian=“18pt” style:font-weight-asian=“bold”  
style:font-size-complex=“18pt” style:font-weight-complex=“bold”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“P4” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“Standard”  
style:master-page-name=“Convert\_20\_1”/\>  
\<style:style style:name=“P5” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“Standard”  
style:master-page-name=“Convert\_20\_2”/\>  
\<style:style style:name=“P6” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“Standard”\>  
\<style:text-properties style:font-name-asian=“Wingdings”  
style:font-size-complex=“10pt”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“P7” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“reference”\>  
\<style:text-properties style:font-name-asian=“Wingdings”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“P8” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“Standard”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:language=“fr” fo:country=“FR”  
style:font-name-asian=“Wingdings” style:font-size-complex=“10pt”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“P9” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“Standard”\>  
\<style:text-properties style:font-size-complex=“10pt”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“P10” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“reference”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:font-size=“11pt”  
style:font-size-asian=“11pt” style:font-size-complex=“9pt”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“P11” style:family=“paragraph”  
style:parent-style-name=“reference2”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:font-size=“11pt”  
style:font-size-asian=“11pt” style:font-size-complex=“9pt”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T1” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:font-size=“21pt” fo:font-weight=“bold”  
style:font-size-asian=“21pt” style:font-weight-asian=“bold”  
style:font-size-complex=“21pt” style:font-weight-complex=“bold”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T2” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:font-size=“21pt” fo:font-weight=“bold”  
style:font-size-asian=“21pt” style:font-weight-asian=“bold”  
style:font-size-complex=“22pt” style:font-weight-complex=“bold”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T3” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:font-weight=“bold”  
style:font-name-asian=“Wingdings” style:font-weight-asian=“bold”  
style:font-weight-complex=“bold”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T4” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties style:font-name-asian=“Wingdings”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T5” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:language=“fr” fo:country=“FR”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T6” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:language=“fr” fo:country=“FR”  
fo:font-weight=“bold” style:font-name-asian=“Wingdings”  
style:font-weight-asian=“bold” style:font-size-complex=“10pt”  
style:font-weight-complex=“bold”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T7” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:language=“fr” fo:country=“FR”  
style:font-name-asian=“Wingdings” style:font-size-complex=“10pt”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T8” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:font-weight=“bold”  
style:font-name-asian=“Wingdings” style:font-weight-asian=“bold”  
style:font-size-complex=“10pt” style:font-weight-complex=“bold”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T9” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties style:font-name-asian=“Wingdings”  
style:font-size-complex=“10pt”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T10” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:font-weight=“bold”  
style:font-weight-asian=“bold” style:font-weight-complex=“bold”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T11” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties fo:font-weight=“bold”  
style:font-weight-asian=“bold” style:font-size-complex=“10pt”  
style:font-weight-complex=“bold”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\<style:style style:name=“T12” style:family=“text”\>  
\<style:text-properties style:font-size-complex=“10pt”/\>  
\</style:style\>  
\</office:automatic-styles\>  
office:body  
office:text  
text:sequence-decls  
\<text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level=“0”  
text:name=“Illustration”/\>  
\<text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level=“0”  
text:name=“Table”/\>  
\<text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level=“0”  
text:name=“Text”/\>  
\<text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level=“0”  
text:name=“Drawing”/\>  
\<text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level=“0”  
text:name=“AutoNr”/\>  
\</text:sequence-decls\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P1”\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T1”\>Isma\</text:span\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T2”\>'\</text:span\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T1”\>ilis: A Bibliography\</text:span\>\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P2”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P2”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P2”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P3”\>Compiled by:\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P3”\>Ramin Khanbagi\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P4”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“Standard”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“Standard”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P5”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“Standard”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“Standard”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“ID”\>[\<text:sequence  
text:ref-name=“refAutoNr0” text:name=“AutoNr”  
text:formula=“ooow:AutoNr+1”  
style:num-format=“1”\>1\</text:sequence\>\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P6”\>'Abd al-Râziq, Ahmad\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“reference”\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T3”\>Die al-Azhar-Moschee\</text:span\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T4”\>., in, \</text:span\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T3”\>"Schätze der Kalifen: Islamische Kunst zur  
Fatimidenzeit."\</text:span\>\<text:span text:style-name=“T4”\>,  
Herausgegeben von W. Seipel, Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien;  
Milan: Skira, 1998, pp. 144-147\</text:span\>\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P7”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P7”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“ID”\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T5”\>[\</text:span\>\<text:sequence  
text:ref-name=“refAutoNr1” text:name=“AutoNr”  
text:formula=“ooow:AutoNr+1”  
style:num-format=“1”\>2\</text:sequence\>\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P8”\>'Abd al-Râziq, Ahmad\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“reference”\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T6”\>La mosquée al-Azhar\</text:span\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T7”\>., in, \</text:span\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T6”\>"Trésors fatimides du Caire. Exposition  
présentée àl'Institut du Monde Arabe …  
\</text:span\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T8”\>1998."\</text:span\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T9”\>, Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 1998, pp.  
147-149\</text:span\>\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P7”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“P7”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“ID”\>[\<text:sequence  
text:ref-name=“refAutoNr2” text:name=“AutoNr”  
text:formula=“ooow:AutoNr+1”  
style:num-format=“1”\>3\</text:sequence\>\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“Standard”\>text:s/'Amri, Husay  
'Abdallah\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“reference”\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T10”\>The Text of an Unpublished Fatwa of the Scholar  
al-Maqbali (d. 1108/1728) Concerning the Legal Position of the  
Batiniyyah (Isma'iliyyah) of the People of Hamdan\</text:span\>.,  
Translated by A.B.D.R. Eagle, \<text:span text:style-name=“Style2”\>New  
Arabian Studies\</text:span\>, 2 (1994), pp. 165-174.\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“reference”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“reference”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“ID”\>[\<text:sequence  
text:ref-name=“refAutoNr3” text:name=“AutoNr”  
text:formula=“ooow:AutoNr+1”  
style:num-format=“1”\>4\</text:sequence\>\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“Standard”\>Abarahamov, Binyamin\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“reference”\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T10”\>An Isma'ili Epistemology: The Case of  
Al-Da'i al-Mutlaq 'Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid\</text:span\>.,  
\<text:span text:style-name=“Style2”\>Journal of Semitic  
Studies\</text:span\>, 41ii (1996), pp. 263-273.\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“reference”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“reference”/\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“ID”\>[\<text:sequence  
text:ref-name=“refAutoNr4” text:name=“AutoNr”  
text:formula=“ooow:AutoNr+1”  
style:num-format=“1”\>5\</text:sequence\>\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“Standard”\>Abel, A.\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“reference”\>\<text:span  
text:style-name=“T10”\>De historische betekenis van de Loutere Broeders  
van Basra (Bassorah), een wijsgerig gezelschap in de Islam van de Xe  
eeuw\</text:span\>., \<text:span text:style-name=“Style2”\>Orientalia  
Gandensia\</text:span\>, 1 (1964), pp. 157-170.\</text:p\>  
\<text:p text:style-name=“reference”/\>  
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ooo-and-regexp/78186/2 "2006-12-03T21:15:29Z")

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ishamid wrote:

> [novice]  
> Hi,
> 
> Paul L. suggested that I give more detail about my problem. Ok,  
> here it is:
> 
> BACKGROUND:  
> Save a small document in OOo format,

Do you mean an Open Office Open Document format? The sort of data file  
that  
typically has a suffix of “.odt” and consists of a compressed set of XML  
files for various purposes?

> like a bibliographic entry with,  
> say, the article title in bold and the journal in italics
> 
> - under options - save -\> disable xml size optimization
> - save the file
> - copy the file to a subdirectory
> - run “unzip filename”

I think this answers my first question.

> the script is still buggy:  
> it is converted elsewhere.  
> I am unable to correlate this line number with a " sequence in the  
> corresponding line in your provided XML sample. Are the two quote  
> sequences  
> on separate lines? If so, use this form:

str.gsub!(/"(.\*?)"/m) do  
‘\quotation {’ + $1 + ‘}’  
end

Note the added ‘m’. This won’t work if you are parsing the file line by  
line  
and if the two " sequences are on different XML lines.

If (1) you have two " sequences on different lines, and if (2) you  
are  
processing the XML content line by line, then you will have to change  
how  
you process the file in the most fundamental way to get this particular  
TeX  
conversion to work.

> This apparently works fine. Now I want some linespace between  
> ‘\startitemize’ & ‘\head’, so I put a “\n\n” in between them. This  
> causes the xml tags to appear in the output file like this
> 
> ============  
> \<text:p text:style-name=“ID”\>\startitemize
> 
> # \head\</text:p\>

Yes. This is what you instructed the computer to do, and apparently the  
computer succeeded in meeting your request. I assume this is on the TeX  
side of the conversion process, and I don’t happen to know how a  
linefeed  
is represented in TeX, but I believe that (a TeX linefeed) is what you  
want  
to insert, not bare linefeeds (unless I have completely misunderstood  
you).

> iii) any tips for improving this script are appreciated. I’m sure I’ll  
> have more questions over the next couple of days as I work on this.

I had hoped for a list of desired conversions, rather than a script that  
needs work. Most people are reluctant to dig into someone else’s code,  
such  
an approach normally takes much longer than starting over.

I was able to format your XML this time, because the example was  
complete,  
and having taken a look at it, I assume this is a OpenOffice Open  
Document  
format file, yes?

Postscript. Have you considered all your options? OpenOffice will save  
its  
documents in many formats, several of which preserve the original  
formatting. For example, you could save the document as RTF, then use  
the  
utility “rtf2TeX” to perform the conversion to TeX.

I haven’t actually done this, but I can see your effort level and I  
thought  
I would alert you to some other options.

I would also have mentioned saving as HTML and using html2tex, but I  
doubt  
you would be pleased with the outcome (no paging or footnotes AFAIK).

Post-postscript. The TeX output is a requirement, yes? There are many  
excellent output formats that are in wider use today.