Re: OASIS OpenDocument Essentials

> So you want to know which part of the object is visible and only access
> the XML representation of this part? Sorry, that's not possible, not
> even theoretically. The visible area of an embedded object can contain
> even only parts of some of its elements, e.g. only the half of a
> rectangle in a drawing object.

Thanks Matthias,

When you say "theoretically", what do you mean ? OOo must be aware of 
which part it displays and which it does not ? Why is it not possible 
to access this information ? What is the unit (int) for the 
VisibleArea... values ?

It may be a little far fetched but if the unit is somehow related to 
pixels and screen resolution (as seem to be implied by other attributes 
in the settings.xml) there must be a way to compute which string is on 
screen and which is not ?

Is the involved complexity what makes you say it is not possible ?

JC