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OpenDocument

OpenDocument Text
OpenDocument Text icon
Filename extensions
.odt  .fodt
Internet media type
application/vnd.oasis.
opendocument.text
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)
org.oasis.opendocument.text
UTI conformation
org.oasis-open.opendocument
public.composite-content
Developed by OASIS
Initial release 1 May 2005; 11 years ago (2005-05-01)
Latest release
1.2
(29 September 2011; 5 years ago (2011-09-29))
Type of format Document
Extended from XML
Standard ISO/IEC 26300
(OASIS OpenDocument Format)
Open format? Yes
Website
OpenDocument Presentation
OpenDocument Presentation icon
Filename extensions
.odp  .fodp
Internet media type
application/vnd.oasis.
opendocument.presentation
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)
org.oasis.opendocument.presentation
UTI conformation
org.oasis-open.opendocument
public.composite-content
Developed by OASIS
Initial release 1 May 2005; 11 years ago (2005-05-01)
Latest release
1.2
(29 September 2011; 5 years ago (2011-09-29))
Type of format Presentation
Extended from XML
Standard ISO/IEC 26300
(OASIS OpenDocument Format)
Open format? Yes
OpenDocument Spreadsheet
OpenDocument Spreadsheet icon
Filename extensions
.ods  .fods
Internet media type
application/vnd.oasis.
opendocument.spreadsheet
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)
org.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
UTI conformation
org.oasis-open.opendocument
public.composite-content
Developed by OASIS
Initial release 1 May 2005; 11 years ago (2005-05-01)
Latest release
1.2
(29 September 2011; 5 years ago (2011-09-29))
Type of format Spreadsheet
Extended from XML
Standard ISO/IEC 26300
(OASIS OpenDocument Format)
Open format? Yes
OpenDocument Graphics
OpenDocument Spreadsheet icon
Filename extensions
.odg  .fodg
Internet media type
application/vnd.oasis.
opendocument.graphics
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)
org.oasis.opendocument.graphics
UTI conformation
org.oasis-open.opendocument
public.composite-content
Developed by OASIS
Initial release 1 May 2005; 11 years ago (2005-05-01)
Latest release
1.2
(29 September 2011; 5 years ago (2011-09-29))
Type of format Graphics
Extended from XML
Standard ISO/IEC 26300
(OASIS OpenDocument Format)
Open format? Yes

The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, is an XML-based file format for spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. It was developed with the aim of providing an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications.

The standard was developed by a technical committee in the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium. It was based on the Sun Microsystems specification for OpenOffice.org XML, the default format for OpenOffice.org, which had been specifically intended "to provide an open standard for office documents."

In addition to being an OASIS standard, it was published as an ISO/IEC international standard ISO/IEC 26300 – Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument).

The most common filename extensions used for OpenDocument documents are:

The original OpenDocument format consists of an XML document that has <document> as its root element. OpenDocument files can also take the format of a ZIP compressed archive containing a number of files and directories; these can contain binary content and benefit from ZIP's lossless compression to reduce file size. OpenDocument benefits from separation of concerns by separating the content, styles, metadata, and application settings into four separate XML files.

There is a comprehensive set of example documents in OpenDocument format available. The whole test suite is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.


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