1. Is openoffice server listening on port 8100? Can XE
connect to that
  port?
  
 The port should be fine since importing
simple documents works.
 > 2. What does the XE log tell you when this problem occurs.
  
 I also have a import issue on the 2.0.3 XE
tag. It seems that the issue
 was reported by another user here:
http://n2.nabble.com/OpenOffice-converter-problem-URL-seems-to-be-an-unsupp…
 Importing works fine for me on the current 2.0.x snapshot.
  Another possibility is that there might be a
problem with your 
 openoffice
  profile. Usually this should not happen because
jodconverter 
 automatically
  creates a profile. 
 No, the profile is not
created automatically, at least not every time. I
 had this issue on both Windows and Linux. You need to start & use Open
 Office so that it creates the folder, otherwise you need to create it
 yourself or change the office importer settings.
 
 Well, if the OpenOffice server is started internal to XE AFAIR OpenOffice
 profile should be created automatically. But if you are starting OpenOffice
 server externally, then you have to provide a profile directory manually.