I have noticed that getFootnoteList() does not work on ODT files.
It does work if one chagnes the line
A similar change would fix getFootnoteCitationList(). I'm guessing
that this is a glitch created by the shift from SXW to ODT, and that
this forum is a reasonable place to report the bug & workaround.
P.S. I note that getFootnoteList() really doesn't get a list of
footnotes, but rather a list of footnote bodies. Not sure why
there isn't a getFootnoteBodyList() separate from getFootnoteList().
OTOH, it's easy enough to use getElementList('//text:note', @_)
if I want the "all parts of the footnote" list.