A proprietary open source file format is an oxymoron.
Actually, like most popular open source software (and like all good
software), the OpenOffice content is well documented and easily
accessible (published file formats, SDK, etc.). Each OpenOffice
document is stored as a zip file (in this example, this is an OpenOffice
drawing):
bhaskark ~ 8:48am 135: unzip -l 2004/gtm/041014-2GlobalDirectory.sxd
Archive: 2004/gtm/041014-2GlobalDirectory.sxd
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
28 12-09-04 22:38 mimetype
19379 12-09-04 22:38 content.xml
15368 12-09-04 22:38 styles.xml
1088 12-09-04 22:38 meta.xml
10459 12-09-04 22:38 settings.xml
750 12-09-04 22:38 META-INF/manifest.xml
-------- -------
47072 6 files
Here is the beginning of content.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE office:document-content PUBLIC "-//OpenOffice.org//DTD
OfficeDocument1.0//EN" "office.dtd"><office:document-content
xmlns:office="http://openoffice.org/2000/office";
xmlns:style="http://openoffice.org/2000/style";
xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text";
xmlns:table="http://openoffice.org/2000/table";
The default setting is for compact XML files (not pretty-printed), but
you can ask for pretty-printed XML files. The DTD is also published - I
looked at it last year, but it was not simple. Indeed, OpenOffice went
to an XML based format years before its competition
-- Bhaskar
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 08:40 -0500, David Sommers wrote:
> I haven't cracked open their native format but it could be XML under the
> covers. Office 2003 is like that - Word, Excel, etc - all XML.
>
> /David.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John
> Leo Zimmer
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:26 AM
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> Subject: [Hardhats-members] XML (like OpenOffice does)
>
> Joseph,
> Is this accurate? I would expect to be able to read an XML file with the
>
> "naked eye" so to speak, but I can't find such a file format in
> OpenOffice.
>
> regards,
> jlz
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:46:56 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Transcription
>
> > Kevin....
> >
> > From what you know would the following be possible: If one used a
> > wordprocessor that stored files in XML (like OpenOffice does) you
> >
>
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