Adventures with OpenOffice and XML
Article exploring the new XML output format in the open source word processor OpenOffice, and its potential to change the face of open source XML content management.

Wikipedia: OpenOffice XML
Article about this XML-based document format.

OASIS Open Office XML Format TC
Project for the development of an open, XML-based document format. Activities, workgroups, documents.

Thinking XML: The open office file format
Article introducing the document formats of the OpenOffice.org suite and explaining their advantages.

OpenOffice.org: XML Project
Contains support for and implementation of the XML based file format, StarOffice XML, for Sun Microsystem's StarOffice office suite release 6 and above [Windows, Solaris, Linux]

Converting OpenOffice.org documents to XHTML 1.0
A quickguide to converting OpenOffice.org's sxw-format to xhtml strict. By Andreas Bovens.

Writer2LaTeX
Utility written in java for converting OpenOffice.org/StarOffice 6/7 Writer documents – in particular, documents containing formulas – into other formats. It is actually a collection of three converters: Writer2LaTeX, Writer2BibTeX and Writer2xhtml.