所以，如果我希望在 Web 應用程序和 Open Office 之間發送數據，那麼我感興趣的實際上不是整個 .odf 文件，只是其中包含的 content.xml。當我查看這個文件時，我看到了什麼？它長達 17,629 個字符，包含 23 個 XML 名稱空間，63 行樣式信息（盡管只有一個樣式文件），而且每個單元格還有樣式信息。對於桌面電子表格應用程序，這些東西也許可以保留，但是我不希望浪費時間在網絡上傳遞這些不必要的信息，然後解析它，區分它的類別，最後丟棄它。清單 2 給出一個小片段和一行實際數據以供比較：
<table:table-row table:style-name="ro3">
<table:table-cell office:value-type="string">
<text:p>Room of One's Own</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell table:style-name="Default"
office:value-type="string">
<text:p>Journal</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell table:style-name="ce2"
office:value-type="string">
<text:p>Hyacinth Blue; Fabrication; Thanksgiving;
Spilling the Peas</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell table:style-name="ce5"
office:value-type="date" office:date-value="2005-05-10">
<text:p>10 May 2005</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell table:style-name="ce5"
office:value-type="date" office:date-value="2005-09-01">
<text:p>1 Sep 2005</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell table:style-name="ce5"
office:value-type="date" office:date-value="2006-10-01">
<text:p>1 Oct 2006</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell table:style-name="ce5"
office:value-type="date" office:date-value="2006-09-01">
<text:p>1 Sep 2006</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell office:value-type="string">
<text:p>Hyacinth Blue</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell table:style-name="ce6"
office:value-type="currency" office:currency="CAD"
office:value="50">
<text:p>50.00 CAD</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell office:value-type="string">
<text:p>2 CopIEs of Publication Issue</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell table:style-name="ce7"
office:value-type="currency" office:currency="CAD"
Office:value="1.12">
<text:p>1.12 CAD</text:p>
</table:table-cell>
<table:table-cell table:style-name="ce7" />
<table:table-cell table:number-columns-repeated="244" />
</table:table-row>