OpenDocument Definition (ODF)

OpenDocument (ODF), is a group of XML-based file formats, which represents electronic documents such as spreadsheets, presentations, text documents, etc.In other words, they are open formats for office applications.

A file OpenDocument consists of an XML document or they can also be a ZIP archive that contains several files and directories that contain styles, metadata, application settings and content.

Some OpenDocument document formats

*.odt (for text documents) *.ods (for spreadsheets) *.odp (for presentations) *.odb (for databases) *.odg (for graphics) *.odf (for equations and mathematical formulas ), etc.

Some applications that work (partially or totally) with some of these formats are: AbiWord, Adobe Buzzword, Atlantis Word Processor, Google Docs, IBM Lotus Symphony, KOffice, Microsoft Office 2007 (and top), NeoOffice, Okular, OpenOffice.org, Sun Microsystems StarOffice, Word Pad 6.1 (Windows 7) partial support, Zoho Office Suite, etc.

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