Open Office question

[Jason Clinton]

Brian Densmore wrote:

>Anyone know if Open Office is using standard xml or
>some kind of specialized xml?
>The reason I ask is I can't open Open Office docs
>on 'Doze. I even tried renaming them as xml,
>but neither Mozilla, Word, nor IE can read them decently.
>Word does the best. :/
>Mozilla gives a parsing error.
>What gives? It looks like it's compressed or something.
>So much for portability. :(
>  
>
Standard XML.

It's ZIP compressed archive. You can uncompress it and view the contents 
w/ a text editor.