Open Document Format for Office Applications
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Implementations
Most popular
- OpenOffice.org and its commercial counterpart StarOffice
- Sun's ODF plugin for MS-Office
- ODF converter for MS-Office
- Microsoft Office 2007 sp2
See also the comparison on Wikipedia and the article on ODF interoperability
Functionality not (yet) part of ODF
Not part of ODF 1.1, but will be part of ODF 1.2:
- Spreadsheet formulas
- Digital signatures
- fine-grained (element-level) meta-data; currently limited to document-level meta-data
Not part of ODF 1.1, and will not be part of ODF 1.2:
- macros are allowed, but not specified (no common language)
- database files; ODF does store connection strings and queries but there's no "Access" or "DBF"-like file format
Application specific features
Applications can still opt to implement these features by adding application-specific namespaces and/or files to the ODF package. For example: OOo is able to store and retrieve spreadsheet formulas by adding a custom formula namespace to the content file.
ODF in Belgium
- The Belgium government approved the use of ODF on June 23rd, 2006.
- As of September 2007, every Federal Public Service (FPS) must be able to read ODF (besides other formats).
- As of September 2008, Federal Public Services are required to use ODF when exchanging editable office documents
Note that this only applies to the exchange between FPSs; other formats are allowed when exchanging documents with other governments, citizens or within the FPSs themselves
The recommended version is ODF 1.1.
Versions and standardisation
- v1.0 (2nd Edition) is approved by ISO as ISO 26300:2006
- v1.1 is an OASIS standard, most applications use this version
- v1.2 is an OASIS draft and will be submitted to ISO
