How OpenOffice Writer saves its Bibliographic data.

Shown below a sample OO0 Writer document that contains only the following bit of text a bibliographic entry and a bibliographic table, with custom formatting.

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Test Message [1]

Bibliography

1: Wilson. D, Testing Bibliographic databases, ( Melbourne: Free Press, 2003)

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Show below is how text and bibliographic data is stored in the OpenOffice document.sxw file. This is the contents of the contents.xml file with the document.sxw file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE office:document-content PUBLIC "-//OpenOffice.org//DTD OfficeDocument 1.0//EN" "office.dtd">
<office:document-content xmlns:office="http://openoffice.org/2000/office"
        xmlns:style="http://openoffice.org/2000/style"
        xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"
        xmlns:table="http://openoffice.org/2000/table"
        xmlns:draw="http://openoffice.org/2000/drawing"
        xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
        xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
        xmlns:number="http://openoffice.org/2000/datastyle"
        xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
        xmlns:chart="http://openoffice.org/2000/chart"
        xmlns:dr3d="http://openoffice.org/2000/dr3d"
        xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
        xmlns:form="http://openoffice.org/2000/form"
        xmlns:script="http://openoffice.org/2000/script" office:class="text" office:version="1.0">
 <office:script/>
 <office:font-decls>
  <style:font-decl style:name="Arial" fo:font-family="Arial"/>
  <style:font-decl style:name="Bookman Old Style" fo:font-family="&apos;Bookman Old Style&apos;"/>
  <style:font-decl style:name="Arial Unicode MS" fo:font-family="&apos;Arial Unicode MS&apos;" style:font-pitch="variable"/>
  <style:font-decl style:name="HG Mincho Light J" fo:font-family="&apos;HG Mincho Light J&apos;" style:font-pitch="variable"/>
 </office:font-decls>
 <office:automatic-styles>
  <style:style style:name="P1" style:family="paragraph" style:parent-style-name="Bibliography 1">
   <style:properties>
    <style:tab-stops/>
   </style:properties>
  </style:style>
  <style:style style:name="Sect1" style:family="section">
   <style:properties>
    <style:columns fo:column-count="0" fo:column-gap="0cm"/>
   </style:properties>
  </style:style>
 </office:automatic-styles>
 <office:body>
  <text:sequence-decls>
   <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Illustration"/>
   <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Table"/>
   <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Text"/>
   <text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Drawing"/>
  </text:sequence-decls>
  <text:p text:style-name="Standard">Test Message <text:bibliography-mark
text:identifier="test-bib" text:bibliography-type="book" text:address="Melbourne"
text:author="Wilson. D" text:booktitle="Testing Bibliographic databases"
text:edition="27th" text:note="overly prolyx" text:pages="1283"
text:name="Bibliography1">
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     <text:index-entry-span>: </text:index-entry-span>
     <text:index-entry-bibliography text:bibliography-data-field="author"/>
     <text:index-entry-span>,  </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>,  </text:index-entry-span>
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    </text:bibliography-entry-template>
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     <text:index-entry-span>:  </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>, </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>,  ( </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>, </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>)</text:index-entry-span>
    </text:bibliography-entry-template>
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     <text:index-entry-bibliography text:bibliography-data-field="year"/>
    </text:bibliography-entry-template>
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     <text:index-entry-span>: </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>, </text:index-entry-span>
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    </text:bibliography-entry-template>
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     <text:index-entry-span>: </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>, </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>, </text:index-entry-span>
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    </text:bibliography-entry-template>
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     <text:index-entry-span>: </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>, </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>: </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>, </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>: </text:index-entry-span>
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     <text:index-entry-span>, </text:index-entry-span>
     <text:index-entry-bibliography text:bibliography-data-field="year"/>
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     <text:index-entry-span>: </text:index-entry-span>
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   <text:index-body>
    <text:index-title text:style-name="Sect1" text:name="Bibliography1_Head">
     <text:p text:style-name="Bibliography Heading">Bibliography</text:p>
    </text:index-title>
    <text:p text:style-name="P1">1: <text:s/>Wilson. D,
        <text:span text:style-name="Italic">Testing Bibliographic databases</text:span>,
        <text:s/>( Melbourne: Free Press, 2003)</text:p>
   </text:index-body>
  </text:bibliography>
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 </office:body>
</office:document-content>