Minimal XML Test Document

So after being able to rebuild an ODF from component files as per the previous post, I wanted to first see if I could find a minimal set of XML which would successfully load and open into LibreOffice and MS Office 2007.

So this worked! I was surprised by how much I could pare away.

The results are 3 files as follows, and this isn't a bad place to start describing a minimal XML subset of ODF.

We'll keep paring away....

META-INF/manifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<manifest:manifest xmlns:manifest="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:manifest:1.0">
    <manifest:file-entry manifest:media-type="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" manifest:full-path="/" />
    <manifest:file-entry manifest:media-type="text/xml" manifest:full-path="content.xml" />
</manifest:manifest>


content.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<office:document-content office:version="1.1" xmlns:office="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ooo="http://openoffice.org/2004/office" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:meta="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:meta:1.0" xmlns:style="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:style:1.0" xmlns:text="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0" xmlns:table="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:table:1.0" xmlns:draw="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:drawing:1.0" xmlns:fo="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:xsl-fo-compatible:1.0" xmlns:number="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:datastyle:1.0" xmlns:svg="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:svg-compatible:1.0" xmlns:chart="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:chart:1.0" xmlns:dr3d="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:dr3d:1.0" xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:form="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:form:1.0" xmlns:script="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:script:1.0" xmlns:ooow="http://openoffice.org/2004/writer" xmlns:oooc="http://openoffice.org/2004/calc" xmlns:dom="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events">
    <!-- Generated by SecureODT - max comments chars needed -->
    <office:body>
        <office:text>
            <text:p>
                <text:span>test</text:span>
            </text:p>
            <text:p>
                <text:span>1<text:s/>2<text:s/>3<text:s/>4</text:span>
            </text:p>
            <text:p>
                <text:span>abc<text:s/>123<text:s/>def<text:s/>456</text:span>
            </text:p>
            <text:p />
        </office:text>
    </office:body>
</office:document-content>

mimetype.xml

application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text