Open Office XML: The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an open XML-based document file format for office applications to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical elements. It is intended to meet the following requirements:
- it must be suitable for office documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents,
- it must be compatible with the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) v1.0 and W3C Namespaces in XML v1.0 specifications,
- it must retain high-level information suitable for editing the document,
- it must be friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based languages or tools,
- it should keep the document's content and layout information separate such that they can be processed independently of each other, and
- it should 'borrow' from similar, existing standards wherever possible and permitted.
Organization: OASIS. More information: Open Office XML page on the OASIS website (new window)
More on the general topic: Common XML vocabularies
- Address XML
- Computing Environment XML
- Content Syndication XML
- Customer Information XML
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) XML
- Geospatial XML
- Human XML
- Localization XML
- Math XML
- Open Applications Group Integration Specification (OAGIS)
- Topic maps XML
- Trade XML
- Translation XML
- Universal Business Language (UBL)
- Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF)
