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Format

OpenOffice Writer

Summary

Name
OpenOffice Writer
Version
1.0
Identifiers
  • MIME: application/vnd.sun.xml.writer
  • PUID: fmt/128
Format type
Word Processor
Description
All OpenOffice v1.0 documents (Calc, Draw, Impress, Writer) use the extensible Markup Language (XML) for representing the elements and attributes of each structural component of the document. As XML has no native support for binary objects, OpenOffice.org files use a standard Zip file to store the XML content together with its associated binary data. Information about the files contained in the Zip file is stored in an XML file called the manifest file. The manifest file is always stored at the pathname META-INF/manifest.xml. The manifest file contains a list of all the files in the Zip file, the media type of each file, and the information necessary to decrypt any encrypted files included in the Zip file.
File extensions
sxw
Source
The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration

Relationships

Has priority over

Internal signatures

OpenOffice Writer 1.0

Note
PKZIP file header + MIME-type declaration, PKZIP file header + meta.xml (office:version="1.0")

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
None
Byte Sequence
504B0304140000000000{20}6D696D65747970656170706C69636174696F6E2F766E642E73756E2E786D6C2E777269746572*504B0304140000000000{20}6D6574612E786D6C3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D22312E3022{322}6F66666963653A76657273696F6E3D22312E30223E
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Updated in V62

    Release date
    28 August 2012

    OpenOffice Writer: MIME-Type information added. Description information submitted by the National Archives and Records Administration.