diff --git a/gsf/gsf-libxml.c b/gsf/gsf-libxml.c
index 31bf805..18ed0b5 100644
--- a/gsf/gsf-libxml.c
+++ b/gsf/gsf-libxml.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <gsf/gsf-impl-utils.h>
 #include <gsf/gsf-utils.h>
 #include <gsf/gsf-timestamp.h>
+#include <gsf/gsf-docprop-vector.h>
 #include <glib/gi18n-lib.h>
 
 #include <math.h>
@@ -266,6 +267,25 @@ gsf_xml_gvalue_from_str (GValue *res, GType t, char const *str)
 			gsf_timestamp_free (ts);
 			if (ok)
 				break;
+		} else if (GSF_DOCPROP_VECTOR_TYPE == t) {
+			GsfDocPropVector *vector = gsf_docprop_vector_new ();
+			GValue *v = g_new0 (GValue, 1);
+			g_value_init (v, G_TYPE_STRING);
+			while (*str != 0) {
+				char *end = strchr (str, ',');
+				if (end) {
+					g_value_take_string (v, g_strndup (str, end - str));
+					str = end + 1;
+				} else {
+					g_value_set_string (v, str);
+					str = end;
+				}
+				gsf_docprop_vector_append (vector, v);
+			}
+			g_value_unset (v);
+			g_free (v);
+			g_value_set_object (res, vector);
+			break;
 		} else g_warning ("gsf_xml_gvalue_from_str(): Don't know how to handle type '%s'", g_type_name (t));
 
 		return FALSE;
@@ -1926,6 +1946,15 @@ gsf_xml_out_add_gvalue (GsfXMLOut *xout, char const *id, GValue const *val)
 			gsf_xml_out_add_cstr (xout, id, str);
 			g_free (str);
 			break;
+		} else if (GSF_DOCPROP_VECTOR_TYPE == t) {
+			GsfDocPropVector *v = gsf_value_get_docprop_vector (val);
+			char *str = gsf_docprop_vector_as_string (v);
+			char *full_str = g_strdup_printf
+				("GSF_DOCPROP_VECTOR_TYPE:%s", str);
+			gsf_xml_out_add_cstr (xout, id, full_str);
+			g_free (full_str);
+			g_free (str);
+			break;
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/gsf/gsf-opendoc-utils.c b/gsf/gsf-opendoc-utils.c
index 2df4daa..f26da9f 100644
--- a/gsf/gsf-opendoc-utils.c
+++ b/gsf/gsf-opendoc-utils.c
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static void
 od_meta_user_defined (GsfXMLIn *xin,  xmlChar const **attrs)
 {
 	GsfOOMetaIn *mi = (GsfOOMetaIn *)xin->user_state;
-	mi->typ = G_TYPE_STRING;
+	mi->typ = G_TYPE_NONE;
 	mi->name = NULL;
 
 	for (; attrs != NULL && attrs[0] && attrs[1] ; attrs += 2) {
@@ -257,10 +257,17 @@ od_meta_user_defined_end (GsfXMLIn *xin, G_GNUC_UNUSED GsfXMLBlob *blob)
 	GsfOOMetaIn *mi = (GsfOOMetaIn *)xin->user_state;
 
 	if (mi->name != NULL) {
+		char const *str = xin->content->str;
 		GValue *res = g_new0 (GValue, 1);
 		GType t = mi->typ;
-		if (t == G_TYPE_NONE) t = G_TYPE_STRING;
-		if (gsf_xml_gvalue_from_str (res, t, xin->content->str)) {
+		if (t == G_TYPE_NONE) {
+			if (g_str_has_prefix (xin->content->str, "GSF_DOCPROP_VECTOR_TYPE:")) {
+				t = GSF_DOCPROP_VECTOR_TYPE;
+				str += strlen ("GSF_DOCPROP_VECTOR_TYPE:");
+			} else
+				t = G_TYPE_STRING;
+		}
+		if (gsf_xml_gvalue_from_str (res, t, str)) {
 			gsf_doc_meta_data_insert (mi->md, mi->name, res);
 			mi->name = NULL;
 		} else {
@@ -551,6 +558,8 @@ meta_write_props (char const *prop_name, GsfDocProp *prop, GsfXMLOut *output)
 		default:
 			if (GSF_TIMESTAMP_TYPE == t)
 				type_name = "date";
+			else if (GSF_DOCPROP_VECTOR_TYPE == t)
+				{/* We will write only character data */};
 		}
 		if (NULL != type_name)
 			gsf_xml_out_add_cstr (output, "meta:value-type", type_name);
