Bug 139432 - Gnumeric's Help Menu brings up xml rather than help
Summary: Gnumeric's Help Menu brings up xml rather than help
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: X11 Applications (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Major
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Assignee: E-mail List
QA Contact: Stefan Dirsch
URL: http://www.obviously.com/
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Reported: 2005-12-15 19:20 UTC by Bryce Nesbitt
Modified: 2006-11-09 17:03 UTC (History)
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Description Bryce Nesbitt 2005-12-15 19:20:57 UTC 
When I visit the Gnumeric Manual, and click on any heading, I get
something that looks like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><!-- -*- indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- -->
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:yelp="http://www.gnome.org/yelp/ns"
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
                extension-element-prefixes="yelp"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:import href="search-header.xsl"/>
<xsl:param name="help_icon"/>
<xsl:param name="help_icon_size"/>

<xsl:param name="yelp.javascript"/>
<xsl:param name="yelp.topimage"/>
...


Note: Gnumeric also crashes when saving certain Excel format files.
Comment 1 Bryce Nesbitt 2005-12-15 19:22:21 UTC 
Click in the main pane... clicking on the left works.
Comment 2 Michael Gross 2005-12-19 17:26:36 UTC 
It is known that the Excel-export in gnumeric doesn't work to well. But this is because this is a closed format. I don't think there is much we can do here or could spend so much time to enhance this support.

The manual appears to be in XML format. I don't know if this is a problem, reassigning. I can call the help page and it gets parsed correctly...

I'd like the gnome-maintainers to comment this as well.
Comment 3 Bryce Nesbitt 2006-01-18 19:57:00 UTC 
Excel export has nothing to do with this.

This is simply a broken help file.
Comment 4 JP Rosevear 2006-11-09 17:03:06 UTC 
I think this is probably solved now with susehelp updates and the fix in bug 142827.