

Here are some test results (just to confuse the issue even more). My memory is like a bottomless, Teflon coated sieve. Now I feel I'm just going around in circles.Ĭan anyone please explain what might be happening? I'm unsure when this error crept in, but it's becoming a real painus in the anus. Now I get the same error, but with an earlier offset, which now seems to point to office:name="_Annotation_16658_1985421151". I tried removing that attribute to see what happened. I might even be barking completely up the wrong tree, but it's all I have to go on for now. When I go to that offset in content.xml, all I can see is style:name="Table34", which doesn't appear to be duplicated. My Book.odt/content.xml: Fatal: Attribute "name" bound to namespace "urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns 1.0" was already specified for element "style:style".

I thought I'd try to validate the document, using the service here, to see if I could get a clearer idea of what is causing the problem. The problem only comes when I try to merge changes in the document using Edit => Compare Document.

The document is openable and looks just fine. This is driving my nuts, as I've lost hours of work as a result now. That's when OpenOffice Writer crashes with an "unknown error", and recovery of the document always fails. I've been trying to merge his modified copy with mine (via Edit => Compare Documents), and everything goes fine using the Accept/Reject Changes window, until either the autosave kicks in, or I inevitably click the Save button. I'm currently trying to help a friend publish a book on Amazon, which unfortunately means that I won't be able to upload the source.
