July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
479 pages
12h 30m
English
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Unravel the OpenOffice File Format
OpenOffice provides a suite of applications whose native file format consists of a set of XML files, compressed into a ZIP archive. This hack explores the basics of the OpenOffice file format.
OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) is a suite of free, multiplatform, open source applications for the desktop, sponsored by Sun Microsystems (http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/). The suite includes text-editor, spreadsheet, drawing, and presentation applications, each of which uses an XML-based file format. Table 4-2 lists the OpenOffice applications and their file extensions.
Each file is saved as a collection of XML documents and stored in a ZIP archive. (You can also save documents in other formats, such as text, Rich Text Format, or HTML. You can also export a document as PDF.) The specification of the OpenOffice XML file format is being maintained by an OASIS technical committee (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office).
Table 4-2. OpenOffice applications and file extensions
|
OpenOffice application |
File extension |
|---|---|
|
Calc spreadsheet application |
*.sxc |
|
Calc templates |
*.stc |
|
Draw graphics application |
*.sxd |
|
Draw templates |
*.std |
|
Impress presentation application |
*.sxi |
|
Impress templates |
*.sti |
|
Math application |
*.sxm |
|
Master files |
*.sxg |
|
Writer text editor application |
*.svw |
|
Writer templates |
*.stw |
In the OpenOffice subdirectory of the book’s file archive is a small file, foaf.sxw , a snippet taken from the ...
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