The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance is designed for sharing information between different word processing applications. This article highlights the basic structure of ODF files, some internals of ...

1) Query using XML based on some value like the 'id' or 'displayName' and have access to all of the information (i.e. the Application, Properties, Links, etc. sections).

My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.