Reading and writing OpenOffice documents

Hack:		Unravel the OpenOffice File Format
Subject:		Reading and writing OpenOffice documents
Date:		2005-10-07 20:18:32
From:		TomAnderson

I wrote a paper for OSCON 2005 called "Using Perl to Read and Write OpenOffice Documents". The paper and code are available at http://tomacorp.com/perl/oo/index.html . The 100% documented OpenOffice XML format is a powerful hacking tool. I used it to automate document parsing and translation tasks. The OpenOffice community provides excellent support. I have enjoyed working with OpenOffice XML. It is valid!