The open document format is mostly the format used by open office.
An open office document can be extracted using gunzip/tar and then is
mostly xml.
I think that it is potencially a very good thing.
HTH
Willem
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Martin McCormick wrote:
Thanks for a good article. What exactly are we up against
with the open documents? Are they similar to PDF which covers a huge
range of possibilities. Some PDF's are nothing more than image scans
of a printed page while others have actual searchable text embedded in
the document and can be read with programs like pstotext. The catdoc
application reads many Microsoft Word files and mplayer makes us able
to listen to streaming audio most of the time.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
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