The KOffice Project How to inspect an OASIS OpenDocument file
An OASIS OpenDocument file is a ZIP containing XML files. In some cases however, the XML is hard to read because all on one line. OpenOffice.org has no newlines at all in the XML, but even KOffice can't use newlines in text content since whitespace is interpreted litterally there.
Download the oasis_unpack script
This script takes care of everything for you, assuming that you have xmllint and unzip installed:
oasis_unpack.
Usage: oasis_unpack myfile.odt
