OpenDocument Text
File name extension	. A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a Computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention ( File format) of its contents odt
Internet media type	application/vnd. An Internet media type, originally called a MIME type after MIME and sometimes a Content-type after the name of a header in several protocols whose value oasis. opendocument. text
Developed by	Sun Microsystems, OASIS
Type of format	Document file format
Extended from	XML

OpenDocument Presentation
File name extension	. Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS) is a Global consortium that drives the development convergence and adoption A document file format is a text or binary file format for storing Documents on a storage media, especially for use by Computers Don't change "Extensible" A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a Computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention ( File format) of its contents odp
Internet media type	application/vnd. An Internet media type, originally called a MIME type after MIME and sometimes a Content-type after the name of a header in several protocols whose value oasis. opendocument. presentation
Developed by	Sun Microsystems, OASIS
Type of format	Presentation
Extended from	XML

OpenDocument Spreadsheet
File name extension	. Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS) is a Global consortium that drives the development convergence and adoption Presentation is the process of showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience Don't change "Extensible" A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a Computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention ( File format) of its contents ods
Internet media type	application/vnd. An Internet media type, originally called a MIME type after MIME and sometimes a Content-type after the name of a header in several protocols whose value oasis. opendocument. spreadsheet
Developed by	Sun Microsystems, OASIS
Type of format	Spreadsheet
Extended from	XML

OpenDocument Graphics
File name extension	. Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS) is a Global consortium that drives the development convergence and adoption A spreadsheet is a Computer application that simulates a paper worksheet Don't change "Extensible" A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a Computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention ( File format) of its contents odg
Internet media type	application/vnd. An Internet media type, originally called a MIME type after MIME and sometimes a Content-type after the name of a header in several protocols whose value oasis. opendocument. graphics
Developed by	Sun Microsystems, OASIS
Type of format	Graphics file format
Extended from	XML

The OpenDocument format (ODF) is a free and open file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS) is a Global consortium that drives the development convergence and adoption Image file formats are standardized means of organising and storing images Don't change "Extensible" A free file format is a File format whose full specification is freely available and for which there are no restrictions (e An open format is a published specification for storing digital data usually maintained by a Standards organization, which basically can be used and implemented by anyone A file format is a particular way to encode information for storage in a Computer file. A spreadsheet is a Computer application that simulates a paper worksheet A chart or graph is a type of Information graphic, that represents tabular numeric data and/or functions. A presentation program is a Computer software package used to display information normally in the form of a Slide show. While the specifications were originally developed by Sun, the standard was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) consortium and based on the XML format originally created and implemented by the OpenOffice.org office suite (see OpenOffice.org XML). Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS) is a Global consortium that drives the development convergence and adoption Don't change "Extensible" OpenOfficeorg ( OOo or OOo) is a free Cross-platform office application suite available for a number of different computer In Computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a Software suite intended to be used by typical OpenOfficeorg XML was the File format developed from the StarOffice file formats As well as an OASIS Standard it is, in its version 1. 0 manifestation, published as an ISO/IEC International Standard, ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1. The International Electrotechnical Commission ( IEC) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental international Standards organization that prepares and publishes 0. ^[1] The OpenDocument standard meets the common definitions of an open standard, meaning the specification is freely available and implementable. An open standard is a Standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it

Specifications

Main article: OpenDocument technical specification

The most common filename extensions used for OpenDocument documents are:

• . This document describes the technical specifications of the OpenDocument office document standard, as developed by the OASIS industry consortium A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a Computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention ( File format) of its contents odt for word processing (text) documents
• . Word processing is the creation of documents using a Word processor. ods for spreadsheets
• . A spreadsheet is a Computer application that simulates a paper worksheet odp for presentations
• . Presentation is the process of showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience odg for graphics
• . Graphics (from Greek grc [[wiktγραφικός γραφικός]] see -graphy) are Visual presentations on some surface such as a wall odf for formulae, mathematical equations

A basic OpenDocument file consists of an XML document that has <document> as its root element. In Mathematics and in the Sciences a formula (plural formulae, formulæ or formulas) is a concise way of expressing information Don't change "Extensible" 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. The ZIP File format is a Data compression and archival format. Lossless data compression is a class of Data compression Algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data OpenDocument benefits from separation of concerns by separating the content, styles, metadata and application settings into four separate XML files. In Computer science, separation of concerns ( SoC) is the process of breaking a Computer program into distinct features that overlap in functionality as

There is a comprehensive set of sample documents in OpenDocument Format available. ^[2] The whole test suite is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. Creative Commons licenses are several Copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a U

Standardization

Main article: OpenDocument standardization

The OpenDocument standard was developed by a Technical Committee (TC) under the OASIS industry consortium. Main article OpenDocument Process The first official OASIS meeting to discuss the standard was December 16 2002 The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS) is a Global consortium that drives the development convergence and adoption The ODF-TC has members from a diverse set of companies and individuals. Active TC members have voting rights. Currently this means that Sun and IBM have a voting majority. ^[3] The standardization process involved the developers of many office suites or related document systems. The first official ODF-TC meeting to discuss the standard was December 16, 2002; OASIS approved OpenDocument as an OASIS Standard on May 1, 2005. Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. OASIS submitted the ODF specification to ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1) on November 16, 2005, under Publicly Available Specification (PAS) rules. Events 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

After a six-month review period, on May 3, 2006 OpenDocument unanimously passed its six-month DIS ballot in JTC1, with broad participation,^[4] after which the OpenDocument specification was "approved for release as an ISO and IEC International Standard" under the name ISO/IEC 26300:2006. Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ^[5]

After responding to all written ballot comments, and a 30-day default ballot, the OpenDocument International standard went to publication in ISO, officially published November 30, 2006. International standards are Standards developed by international Standards organisations International standards are available for consideration and use worldwide Events 1700 - Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8500 men under Charles XII defeats Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

The Italian standardization organization UNI adopted OpenDocument on January 26, 2007. Events 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ^[6]

Further standardization work with OpenDocument includes:

• OpenDocument 1.0 (second edition) is the published ISO/IEC 26300:2006 standard. It also has the status of a Committee Specification in OASIS. It includes all the editorial changes made to address JTC1 ballot comments, and as such it reflects the approved ISO/IEC 26300:2006 standard, as published by ISO and IEC. It is available in ODT, HTML and PDF formats.
• OpenDocument 1.1 was approved by OASIS on October 19, 2006. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It includes additional features to address accessibility concerns. ^[7] The Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Specification v1. 1 was approved as an OASIS Standard on 2007-02-01 following a call for vote issued on 2007-01-16. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. ^[8][9] The public announcement was made on 2007-02-13. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed ^[10]
• OpenDocument 1. 2 is currently being written by the ODF TC. It will include additional accessibility features, metadata enhancements, spreadsheet formula specification based on the OpenFormula work (ODF 1. OpenFormula is the name of a draft open standard for exchanging recalculated formulas in Spreadsheets, as well as the name of the project to refine this specification 0 did not specify spreadsheet formulae in detail, leaving many aspects implementation-defined) as well as any errata submitted by the public. Originally OpenDocument 1. 2 was expected by October 2007 but now is expected to become an OASIS standard around September 2008 and a new ISO/SEC version by summer of 2009. ^[11]

On 30 April 2008, ISO/IEC DIS 29500 BRM conveyor Alex Brown posted a blog entry claiming that OpenOffice. Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common org, the main implementation of ODF, was not then in conformance with the ISO/IEC 26300:2006 specification as approved in 2006. He also said he was unsure if any office implementation has true ISO/IEC 26300 standard support for OpenDocument. ^[12] OASIS ODF TC Co-Chair Rob Weir disputed his findings by claiming that Brown validated an OpenOffice ODF version 1. 1 document using the ISO/SEC ODF version 1. 0, and got validation problems because he used the official OASIS Committee specification RELAX NG DTD Compatibility settings which are not submitted to ISO^[13] However Weir's article also confirms that OpenOffice 2. In Computing, RELAX NG ( REgular LAnguage for XML Next Generation) is a schema language for XML, based on Murata Makoto 's RELAX 4 output is declared in OASIS ODF 1. 1, a version which also has not been yet submitted to ISO/IEC, which is planned (as part of ODF 1. 2) for 2009. This article is about the year For the film see 2009 Lost Memories. ^[14][15]

Application support

Software

Main article: OpenDocument software

The OpenDocument format is used in free software and in proprietary software. This is an overview of software support for the OpenDocument format an open Document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents Free software or software libre is Software that can be used studied and modified without restriction and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified Proprietary software is Computer software on which the producer has set restrictions on use private modification copying, or republishing. This includes office suites (both traditional and web-based) and individual applications such as word-processors, spreadsheets, presentation, and data management applications. In Computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a Software suite intended to be used by typical Prominent office suites supporting OpenDocument include OpenOffice.org, KOffice, Google Docs, NeoOffice, Zoho, IBM Lotus Symphony and Corel WordPerfect Office X4. OpenOfficeorg ( OOo or OOo) is a free Cross-platform office application suite available for a number of different computer KOffice is an Office suite for the K Desktop Environment ( KDE) Google Docs is a free Web-based Word processor, Spreadsheet, and Presentation application offered by Google. NeoOffice is a fork of the free / open source OpenOfficeorg Office suite that is ported to Mac OS X. The Zoho Office Suite is an Online office suite which includes tools for word processing spreadsheets presentations databases note-taking wikis CRM project management IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of applications for creating editing and sharing text spreadsheet and other documents WordPerfect Office is an Office suite developed by Corel Corporation. ^[16]

The OpenDocument Fellowship^[17] maintains a list of software and services that support the OpenDocument format. The list also provides information on the status of support for the format. ^[18]

Third parties have announced development of conversion software (including plugins and filters) to support OpenDocument on Microsoft's products. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer ^[19][20] Currently there are nine packages of conversion software. ^[21]

Microsoft Office does not natively support OpenDocument currently. Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications servers and services collectively referred to as an Office suite, for the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft has created the Open XML translator^[22] project to allow the conversion of documents between Office Open XML and OpenDocument. Office Open XML (also referred to as OOXML or OpenXML) is a File format for representing Spreadsheets Charts Presentations As a result of this project, Microsoft finances the ODF add-in for Word project on SourceForge. SourceForgenet is a Source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development This project is an effort by several of Microsoft's partners to create a plugin for Microsoft Office that will be freely available under a BSD license. BSD licenses represent a family of Permissive free software licences. The project released version 1.0 for Microsoft Word of this software in January 2007 followed by versions for Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint in December of the same year. Microsoft Word is Microsoft 's flagship word processing software. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. In Computing, Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) consists of a proprietary Spreadsheet -application written and distributed Microsoft PowerPoint is a proprietary Presentation program developed by Microsoft. Sun Microsystems has created the competing OpenDocument plugin for Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and 2003 that supports Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents. Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services ^[23]

On May 21, 2008 Microsoft announced that Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will add native support for the OpenDocument Format. Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Microsoft Office 2007 (officially called 2007 Microsoft Office system) is the most recent Windows version of the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft's ^[24] It will offer the option to make ODF 1. 1, as well as PDF, the default format, both in the installer and via options settings, while support for their own pending ISO 29500, based on the Office 2007 format, won't be implemented until Office 14. ^[25][26]

Mac OS X 10.5 offers both a new TextEdit version and QuickLook feature supporting the OpenDocument Text format (albeit with some formatting loss). Mac OS X version 105 “Leopard” is the sixth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server Operating system for Macintosh TextEdit is a simple Open source Word processor and Text editor, first featured in NeXT 's NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP.

Accessibility

Further information: OpenDocument software - Accessibility

The specification of OpenDocument has undergone an extensive accessibility review, and a few additions were made to version 1. This is an overview of software support for the OpenDocument format an open Document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents 1 of the specification to improve accessibility. Many of the components it is built on, such as Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language and Scalable Vector Graphics, have already gone through the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative processes. SMIL (ˈsmaɪl "smile" the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML Markup language for describing The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative ( WAI) is an effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web (WWW

Licensing

The OpenDocument specification is available for free download and use. ^[27]

Key contributor Sun Microsystems made an irrevocable intellectual property covenant, providing all implementers with the guarantee that Sun will not seek to enforce any of its enforceable U. Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services S. or foreign patents against any implementation of the OpenDocument specification. ^[28] This Statement is not an assurance that an OpenDocument Implementation would not infringe patents or other intellectual property rights of any third party. ^[29] The covenant is limited to versions of the OpenDocument specification on which Sun has participated to the point of incurring an obligation.

The second key contributor to ODF development, IBM has made their patent rights available through their Interoperability Specifications Pledge in which IBM irrevocably covenants to you that it will not assert any Necessary Claims against you for your making, using, importing, selling, or offering for sale Covered Implementations. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology ^[30] This ISP is limited to existing listed versions and not to future versions, similar to Microsoft's Open Specification Promise on Office Open XML. The Microsoft Open Specification Promise (or OSP) is an irrevocable Promise by Microsoft, published in September 2006, to not assert legal rights Office Open XML (also referred to as OOXML or OpenXML) is a File format for representing Spreadsheets Charts Presentations

Promotion

The work of OASIS includes promoting the OpenDocument Format through the OASIS OpenDocument Adoption Technical Committee. ^[31]

There is a set of OpenDocument icons which can be used for services and systems that use the OpenDocument format.

The OpenOffice.org Suite and the KOffice Suite promote the OpenDocument Format, as it is used as their default file format. OpenOfficeorg ( OOo or OOo) is a free Cross-platform office application suite available for a number of different computer KOffice is an Office suite for the K Desktop Environment ( KDE) Several groups and companies support the OpenDocument Format. For example:

• Companies like Sun Microsystems, IBM, Novell promote the OpenDocument Format actively, as well as other companies who may or may not be working inside the OpenDocument Format's Technical Committee of the OASIS.
• The OpenDocument Format Alliance was founded in March 2006 by the 35 founding members. The Open Document Format Alliance (ODF Alliance is a Washington D In July 2006 the foundation already had more than 280 members.
• The OpenDocument Fellowship was founded to support and promote these formats.
• SpreadOpenDocument.org was the first one to promote the OpenDocument Format to the public in August 2005.
• On November 4, 2005, IBM and Sun Microsystems convened the "OpenDocument (ODF) Summit" in Armonk, New York, to discuss how to boost OpenDocument adoption. Events 1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Armonk is a census-designated place (CDP located in the town of North Castle in Westchester County New York. The ODF Summit brought together representatives from several industry groups and technology companies, including Oracle, Google, Adobe, Novell, Red Hat, Computer Associates, Corel, Nokia, Intel, and Linux e-mail company Scalix. (LaMonica, November 10, 2005). Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The providers committed resources to technically improve OpenDocument through existing standards bodies and to promote its usage in the marketplace, possibly through a stand-alone foundation.
• The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc. is a US-based 501c(3) non profit organization chartered to work in the public interest who has supported the OASIS OpenDocument File Format up to October 2007. The OpenDocument Foundation Inc was an organization set up in 2002 by Gary Edwards Sam Hiser and Paul "Buck" Martin (real name Paul E
• The OIDI.org (Open Interoperative Document Initiative) is committed to encouraging efforts by governments at all levels, around the globe, to implement changes necessary to ensure public documents are open and interoperable and thus available to all citizens/residents without the need for specific vendor software.
• Google Docs can import and export OpenDocument text files. Google Docs is a free Web-based Word processor, Spreadsheet, and Presentation application offered by Google.
• In December 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that by mid 2008 its software, which hosts Wikipedia and a number of other Internet wiki-based sites, will provide OpenDocument export of wiki content. The Wikimedia Foundation Inc is a Non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, ^[32]

Worldwide adoption

Main article: OpenDocument adoption

One objective of open formats like OpenDocument is to guarantee long-term access to data without legal or technical barriers, and some governments have come to view open formats as a public policy issue. This following is an overview of governments and other organizations around the world that are evaluating the use of OpenDocument, an open Document file format for OpenDocument is intended to be an alternative to proprietary formats, including the commonly used DOC, XLS, and PPT formats used by Microsoft Office and other applications. The word proprietary indicates that a party or proprietor exercises private Ownership, control or use over an item of Property. Microsoft Word is Microsoft 's flagship word processing software. In Computing, Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) consists of a proprietary Spreadsheet -application written and distributed Microsoft PowerPoint is a proprietary Presentation program developed by Microsoft. Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications servers and services collectively referred to as an Office suite, for the Microsoft Windows and Up until Feb 15th 2008, these latter formats did not have documentation available for download, and were only obtainable by writing directly to Microsoft Corporation and signing a restrictive non-disclosure agreement. A non-disclosure agreement (NDA also known as a confidentiality agreement, confidential disclosure agreement (CDA proprietary information agreement ^[33] As of Feb 15th 2008, Microsoft offers documents for download claiming to accurately specify the aforementioned document formats (although this claim hasn't been independently verified yet). ^[34] Microsoft is supporting the creation of a plugin for Office to allow it to use OpenDocument. The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc. has created a similar plug-in that will allow continued use of Microsoft Office. The OpenDocument Foundation Inc was an organization set up in 2002 by Gary Edwards Sam Hiser and Paul "Buck" Martin (real name Paul E

The governments of the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, France and Norway have been evaluating the adoption of the OpenDocument format. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Other governments around the world are also considering the adoption of the format. In October 2006, a report commissioned by the then French prime minister Dominique de Villepin recommended that all French government publications be made available in OpenDocument Format. October events and holidays Children's Book Week ( England) - First Week of October National Day ( China People's Republic Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. In July 2007, the Norwegian Standards Council recommended to the government the use of the OpenDocument format. Events in July The traditional period known as "fence month" (the closed season for deer in England ended July 9 (date varied Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ^[35]

Norway's Ministry of Government Administration and Reform decided in December 2007 that from 2009 ODF (ISO/IEC 26300) must be one of the formats used when publishing documents that are meant to be changed after downloading, i. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional e. forms that are to be filled in by the user. ^[36]

The Belgian federal administration plans to exchange all documents in ODF from September 2008. All federal administrations should be able to read ODF documents one year earlier. ^[37]

In Japan, on June 29, 2007, the government published a new interoperability framework which gives preference to the procurement of products that follow open standards including the ODF standards. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ^[38][39]

In Germany ODF is the standard that is recommended by the governmental office for standards in public IT („Koordinierungs- und Beratungsstelle der Bundesregierung für Informationstechnik in der Bundesverwaltung“ (KBSt), see SAGA 4. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. 0^[40]). ODF-formatted documents may be transferred to some courts (the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Patent Court) since September 2007. The Bundespatentgericht (in German, abbreviation BPatG) or German Federal Patent Court, is a German federal Court competent ^[41]

In Malaysia the use of ODF is adopted by The Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) from April 2008 on. For the biogeographical region see Malesia Malaysia (məˈleɪʒə or /məˈleɪziə/ is a country that consists of thirteen states and ^[42]

Criticism

Various criticisms have been levelled at the approved ODF standard.

• Use of MathML for mathematical typesetting in the ODF specification. MathML^[43] is a W3C recommendation for the "inclusion of mathematical expressions in Web pages" and "machine to machine communication" that has been around since about 1999. However, most mathematicians continue to use the much older TeX format as their main method for typesetting complex mathematical formulae. TeX (ˈtɛx as in Greek, often /ˈtɛk/ in English; written with a lowercase 'e' in imitation of the logo is a Typesetting system designed and mostly TeX is not an ISO standard, but is fully documented and is the de facto standard for typesetting mathematical expressions. There exists a converter from (La)TeX to ODT, including mathematical formulas. ^[44] OpenDocument is also criticized for not using the ISO 12083:1994 standard for mathematical formulae, which is not used within MathML either. MathML has a few issues with displaying mathematical formulae well, compared to other methods like TeX. ^[45]
• The OpenDocument ISO specification does not contain a defined formula language. This means that ISO conforming files do not have to be compatible. ^[46] OASIS is working on creating a standard formula language (OpenFormula) for OpenDocument v1. OpenFormula is the name of a draft open standard for exchanging recalculated formulas in Spreadsheets, as well as the name of the project to refine this specification 2 which was due in 2007.
• The OpenDocument ISO specification does not allow for tables in presentations. This is due to be incorporated in the OpenDocument v1. 2 specification which was due in 2007. ^[47] A current recommendation or workaround is to embed a spreadsheet into the presentation to provide the required functionality.
• Different applications using ODF as a standard document format have different methods of providing macro/scripting capabilities. There is no macro language specified in ODF. Users and developers differ on whether inclusion of a standard scripting language would be desirable. ^[48]
• Microsoft's Brian Jones has claimed that OpenDocument's method of handling application specific namespace extensions is excessively complex compared to the Office Open XML specification, which was designed by Microsoft. Office Open XML (also referred to as OOXML or OpenXML) is a File format for representing Spreadsheets Charts Presentations ^[49]
• Sun patent promise applies only with Sun participation: The Sun OpenDocument Patent Statement applies to any implementation of the Open Document Format for Office Applications, or of any subsequent version of the format thereof only if Sun Microsystems participates in development of the subsequent standard version. Sun Microsystems Inc ( is a multinational vendor of Computers computer components Computer software, and Information technology services ^[29]
• Even though OpenOffice. org allows digital signatures and stores them in ODF files according to XML-DSig, the OpenDocument Format 1. XML Signature (also called XMLDsig, XML-DSig, XML-Sig) is a W3C recommendation that defines an XML syntax for Digital signatures 0-1. 1 itself has no reference to the digital signature. Digital signature is application-specific feature in the OpenDocument v1. 1 standard. However, OpenDocument v1. 2 will incorporate XML-DSig in the same fashion as in OpenOffice. org. Thus OpenDocument v1. 2 will have interoperable digital signatures with KOffice 2. 0. ^[50]
• The OpenDocument Format 1. 0-1. 1 specifications refer to 'zip' files but do not reference a standard which describes the zip file format. The ZIP File format is a Data compression and archival format. However, a specification (as opposed to a "standard") for the Zip format was distributed with PKZIP in the file APPNOTE. TXT and this continues to be maintained. ^[51]
• The OpenDocument Foundation, Inc. (whose role in the development of OpenDocument was more minor than the name may suggest; see Promotion), who were involved in developing ODF within the OASIS TC and in developing the closed‐source daVinci plug-in for Microsoft Office, has shifted its attention from supporting OpenDocument to supporting the W3C Compound Document Format (CDF). The OpenDocument Foundation Inc was an organization set up in 2002 by Gary Edwards Sam Hiser and Paul "Buck" Martin (real name Paul E The OpenDocument format (ODF is a File format for electronic office documents such as Spreadsheets Charts presentations and Compound Document Format ( CDF) is an electronic Document file format developed by the W3C that contains multiple formats such as SVG, XHTML The reason stated was: “it is important to recognize that ODF does not adequately respect existing standards and does not address the market's requirements for a single Universal Document Format with which any and all applications can work on an equal basis”. ^[52] Just half a month later (2007-11-11), the Foundation’s site said the foundation had been closed. The Foundation seems to have given up after Sun's release of their own ODF plug-in for Microsoft Office.

See also

• Comparison of document markup languages
• List of document markup languages
• OpenDocument software comparison
• Speech-to-text

References

External links

• OpenDocument Fellowship Volunteer organization with members around the world to promote the adoption, use and development of the OpenDocument format.
• OpenDocument Format Alliance The alliance works globally to educate policymakers, IT administrators and the public on the benefits and opportunities of the OpenDocument Format, to help ensure that government information, records and documents are accessible across platforms and applications, even as technologies change today and in the future.
• OpenDocument XML.org The official community gathering place and information resource for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300).
• OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee coordinates the OpenDocument development and is the official source for specifications, schemas, etc.