Opening Microsoft XPS docs with a Mac

Does anyone know how to open Microsoft XPS format documents? I gather they are an alternative to PDF's (do we need one?). When I run Internet Explorer on Windows XP via Parallels, it 'prints' or saves docs as .xps files. But I can't open them within Mac OSX to view or print them.

Hi,
the remark about support in OpenOffice and NeoOffice is not correct.
NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 5 doesn't open XPS files, it's also not on the feature list for NeoOffice 2.2.5.
Open Office doesn't support it either.
regards,
nixps

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