[Mono-devel-list] OpenOffice and Mono C#

[Michael Torrie]

On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 10:04, Andrew Arnott wrote:
> > Because OpenOffice uses standard, xml-based formats for it's files, ...
> 
> I've opened a Text Document from OpenOffice in a text editor, and I see
> binary--not XML.  Can you explain that for me?

If you would take a look at the article that I posted the link to, you'd
have your explanation.

Here's a command-line example of how to read the files:
$ unzip -v document.sxw
Archive:  document.sxw
 Length   Method    Size  Ratio   Date   Time   CRC-32    Name
--------  ------  ------- -----   ----   ----   ------    ----
    2946  Defl:N      965  67%  12-13-02 04:03  44fee85c  content.xml
    4638  Defl:N     1199  74%  12-13-02 04:03  791e906a  styles.xml
    1120  Stored     1120   0%  12-13-02 04:03  a921529c  meta.xml
    6183  Defl:N     1362  78%  12-13-02 04:03  c8586553  settings.xml
     752  Defl:N      254  66%  12-13-02 04:03  11144701  META-INF/manifest.xml
--------          -------  ---                            -------
   15639             4900  69%                            5 files
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Michael Torrie <torriem at chem.byu.edu>