Open Document Format
The Open Document Format is the file format for electronic office documents. It is standardized as ISO/IEC 26300. Implementors include OpenOffice.org and KOffice.
- ODF at Wikipedia
- OASIS OpenDocument Essentials
- Testing documents: ODF Validator and "How to validate an OASIS OpenDocument file"
- Testing software: ODF Test Suite
Please do not mix up ODF with Microsoft's attempt at destroying real document interoperability which pushes their own underdocumented and badly designed format "Office Open XML", a.k.a. ECMA 376. Here's why OOXML is a very bad idea:
- EOOXML objections, especially the section "Ecma 376 relies on undisclosed information"
- Defective by design
- The noooxml.org site