The message 20090120164816.GE32123@v-shell-1 from Chris G cl@isbd.net contains these words:
Can't make it do what you want - I suggest you have a trawl through www.w3c.com
Yes, I know how to get what I want using CSS, set the border style to 'plain', it's just that Firefox defaults to 'not plain'.
However Brett's pointer to Export as XHTML in Open Office has produced what I want. Thank you Brett.
That's good.
IIRC, Open Offise saves its docs in XML