4 Configuration

4.3 Using LibreOffice to create XHTML documents

The configuration file cleanxhtml.xml that is distributed with Writer2LaTeX, can be used to create semantically rich XHTML content, which can be formatted with your own stylesheet (you should edit the file to add the URL to the stylesheet you want to use).

A subset of the built-in styles in Writer are mapped to XHTML elements (note that the style names are localized, so this is for the english version of LibreOffice):

LO Writer style	LO Writer style family	XHTML element
Text body	paragraph style	p
Sender	paragraph style	address
Quotations	paragraph style	blockquote
Preformatted Text	paragraph style	pre
List Heading	paragraph style	dt (in dl)
List Contents	paragraph style	dd (in dl)
Horizontal Rule	paragraph style	hr
Citation	text style	cite
Definition	text style	dfn
Emphasis	text style	em
Example	text style	samp
Source Text	text style	code
Strong Emphasis	text style	strong
Teletype	text style	tt
User entry	text style	kbd
Variable	text style	var
bold	hard formatting attribute	b
italics	hard formatting attribute	i
fixed pitch font	hard formatting attribute	tt
superscript	hard formatting attribute	sup
subscript	hard formatting attribute	sub

So by using these styles only, you will create well-structured XHTML documents. See the document sample-xhtml.sxw for an example of how to use this.

Links

LO does not support all kind of XHTML link attributes, for example you cannot set title or rel. Writer2xhtml provides a solution for thus using the name attribute: You can define values for all attributes by providing a semicolon separated list of names and values, eg.

title=My title;rel=next

will create an XHTML link like

If the name attributes does not contain such a list, the value is used for the name and title attribute:

My name

will create an XHTML link like