As a single XML document – also known as Flat XML or Uncompressed XML Files==
The OpenDocument format supports the following two ways of document representation:
* As a collection of several sub-documents within a package, each of which stores part of the complete document. This is the common representation of OpenDocument documents. It uses filename extensions such as .odt, .ott, .ods, .odp ... etc. The package is a standard ZIP file with different filename extensions and with a defined structure of sub-documents. Each sub-document within a package has a different document root and stores a particular aspect of the XML document. All types of documents (e.g. text and spreadsheet documents) use the same set of document and sub-document definitions.
* As a single XML document – also known as Flat XML or Uncompressed XML Files. Single OpenDocument XML files are not widely used,[citation needed] they are also unsupported on some office software which claims to support ODF (Microsoft Office applications version 2007 to 2013 do not recognize them). Filename extensions for a single OpenDocument XML documents are not defined in the OpenDocument technical specification, but commonly used are .xml, .fodt,[1] .fods, ... etc.
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OpenOffice.org's word processor, Writer, allows us to save in formats that are text based, such as Docbook XML, Microsoft Word 2003 XML, and OpenDocument Text Flat XML (.fodt).
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