Hi Nadav,
The real answer is lzip'ed XML. However, since most users are challenged 
to open these files the answer I gave was "binary".
Regards,

 - yba


On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote about "Re: Few OOo Q":
> > On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, oren&anat wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have few OOo Q:
> > > 
> > > 1.        The OOo document format, is it binary or XML?
> > 
> > Binary.
> 
> Color me confused... Last time I checked, OpenOffice documents were
> a compressed collection (zip'ed) of XML. So it's not exactly "binary",
> it's XML (if you just open the compression). Has this changed, or
> did you say it's "Binary" simply because it's superficially non-ascii?
> 
> 

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