Short description: Default file format for saving files
OpenOffice.org XML is an open XML-based file format developed as an open community effort[1][2][3] by Sun Microsystems in 2000–2002. The open-source software application suite OpenOffice.org 1.x and StarOffice 6 and 7 used the format as their native and default file format for saving files. The OpenOffice.org XML format is no longer widely used, but it is still supported in recent versions of OpenOffice.org-descended software.
OpenDocument (ISO/IEC 26300:2006) is based on OpenOffice.org XML and these formats are very similar in many technical areas.[4][5] However, OpenDocument is not the same as the older OpenOffice.org XML format and these formats are not directly compatible. In 2005, OpenOffice.org (since version 2.0) and StarOffice (since version 8) switched to OpenDocument as their native and default format.[6][7]
Contents
1History
2File formats
3Implementations
4See also
5References
6External links
History
StarOffice developers adopted XML to replace the old binary StarOffice file format. The draft version was also known as StarOffice XML File Format.[8]
The stated goal in the draft was:
Our goal is twofold: to have a complete specification encompassing all StarOffice components, and to provide an open standard for office documents.
File formats
The format uses XML files to describe the documents. To minimize space, the files are compressed into an archive and given a suffix depending on what sort of data is contained in them.
Zoho QuickRead - a Firefox/Internet Explorer plug-in for online Viewer[20]
See also
List of document markup languages
Comparison of document markup languages
References
↑OpenOffice.org Foundation (2000-07-19). "Welcome to the OpenOffice.org Source Project (archived website)". http://www.openoffice.org/.
↑OpenOffice.org Foundation (2000-08-10). "The OpenOffice.org Project". http://www.openoffice.org/project/www/openofficefoundation.html#standards_process.
↑"History of OpenDocument". 2006-08-28. http://opendocument.xml.org/milestones.
↑"OpenOffice.org XML File Format". http://xml.openoffice.org/general.html.
↑"Sun Introduces New Version of StarOffice Software" (Press release). Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2005-09-27. Archived from the original on 5 April 2006. Retrieved 2006-04-05.
↑"OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here" (Press release). OpenOffice.org. 2005-10-20. Retrieved 2007-09-20.
↑ (PDF) StarOffice XML File Format Working Draft, Technical Reference Manual, Draft 9, December 2000, December 2000, http://xml.coverpages.org/openoffice-xml_specification_draft200012.pdf, retrieved 2010-08-08
↑"Mime Content Types used in OpenOffice.org1.0 / StarOffice 4.x and later". http://framework.openoffice.org/documentation/mimetypes/mimetypes.html.