Opening iWork Pages documents in Textedit

Opening iWork Pages documents in Textedit I have a Pages (iWork '08) document I'd like to work on on my laptop, but my laptop doesn't have iWork. When I try to open the document, it turns out to actually be a folder with several things inside, but everything seems to be meta information. Is there a specific file in there I can open in Textedit and work on, and if so, which one?
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Guest [Entry]

"iWork '08 saves it's files as bundles which will appear as a folder with files within it. iWork '09 unless you turn on ""Save files as packages"" in the preferences saves it as a flat file now.

The index.xml.gz file is a gzip'd version of the text and formatting rules (in xml) of the file). It's possible to unzip this file, make an edit and then rezip it back up but I would advise against it as the work unzipping, rezipping and handling the xml is not really worth the hassle.

Without access to iWork there isn't much you can do - you could export from Pages as an .rtf as TextEdit will be able to edit and work with those as well as Microsoft Word documents."

Guest [Entry]

"This works at least with iWork09's pages documents.
Replace .pages with .zip and unzip the file. In the unzipped folder you will find quicklook-folder containing common pdf-file."