The
OpenDocument
The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, is an open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics and using ZIP-compressed XML files. It was developed wi ...
format (ODF), an abbreviation for the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications, is an
open
Open or OPEN may refer to:
Music
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* ''Open'' (Blues Image album), 1969
* ''Open'' (Gotthard album), 1999
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and
free (excluding maintenance and support)
document file format
A document file format is a text or binary file format for storing documents on a storage media, especially for use by computers.
There currently exist a multitude of incompatible document file formats.
Examples of XML-based open standards are ...
for saving and exchanging editable office documents such as text documents (including memos, reports, and books),
spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in c ...
s,
database
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s,
charts, and presentations. This standard was developed by the
OASIS industry consortium, based upon the
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable ...
-based file format originally created by
OpenOffice.org
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, and ODF was approved as an OASIS standard on May 1, 2005. It became an
ISO
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standard, ISO/IEC 26300, on May 3, 2006.
The following tables list applications supporting OpenDocument 1.0 (ISO/IEC 26300:2006) and OpenDocument 1.1 (OASIS Standard).
Text documents
Word processors
Other applications
Besides word processors, other programs can and do support the OpenDocument text format. See the
List of applications supporting OpenDocument for more.
Spreadsheet documents
Presentation documents
Conversion / publishing systems
OpenDocument Format version in exported files
Root elements in ODF files take an office:version attribute, which indicates which version of OpenDocument Format specification it complies with. The version number is in the format revision.version. If the file has a version known to an XML processor, it may validate the document. Otherwise, it is optional to validate the document, but the document must be well formed. Informations from OpenDocument specification
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Following table contains list of ODF specification version attribute office:version="1.X" used in files exported from OpenDocument software.
Tested sample documents contained one simple sentence (text documents), 10 rows with numbers (sheets), 2 slides (presentation documents). Validation was tested in two different ODF validators.
OpenDocument Format validators
* https://web.archive.org/web/20090130070736/http://tools.odftoolkit.org/odfvalidator/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20081026030022/http://tools.services.openoffice.org/odfvalidator/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20081222095552/http://opendocumentfellowship.com/validator
* Open Document Format (ODF) Accessibility Evaluator - alpha stage (in developmen
* OASIS - Office wiki - How to validate an ODF documen
See also
* Comparison of office suites
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites:
General information
Office Suite names that are on a light purple background are discontinued.
OS support
The operating systems the office suites ...
* Comparison of word processors
This is a comparison of word processing software.
General information
This table provides general information about selected word processors.
Characteristics
This table gives characteristics of each word processor.
Operating system compati ...
* Open format
An open file format is a file format for storing digital data, defined by an openly published specification usually maintained by a standards organization, and which can be used and implemented by anyone. Open file format is licensed with open li ...
* Network effect
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References
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External links
Application support for ODF
(OpenDocument Fellowship)
OpenDocument
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OpenDocument support