From: Tim Hunter <rmagick@...>
Date: 2009-06-17T01:25:10+09:00
Subject: Re: converting openoffice documents to XML

On Jun 16, 2:56 am, Anandh Kumar <anandhthiyagara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
>       I've to parse the open office documents and upload it to the
> database in ruby on rails and in linux platform. I've not found any gem
> to accomplish that. Now i got a idea of converting the open office
> documents to XML format and then to parse the XML content to finish up
> with my task.
>
>        Is it possible?

An OpenOffice document is a package of XML files zipped into a single
file. Change the .odt extension to .zip, unzip it, and you'll see.