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Convert ODT to XML

Rows become elements named after their columns, so the headings have to work as tag names. A heading like "Q1 (net)" cannot be one - the punctuation in it is replaced rather than the conversion failing, and a heading that starts with a digit gets a generic name instead.

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What is ODT?

What LibreOffice, OpenOffice and Google Docs save a document as, and the ISO-standard counterpart to .docx. Inside it is a zip of XML, which is the reason a table drawn in one can be read back out at all. It is a page format first - paragraphs, page breaks, headers, footnotes - so the only part of it that is data is a table someone drew on the page.

What is XML?

Verbose, strict, and still holding up enormous amounts of the world - government feeds, financial messaging, publishing, office documents. JSON took the web from it, but anywhere with schemas and validators and twenty years of history, XML is what's on the wire.