OpenOffice.org XML

Not to be confused with Office Open XML, a file format developed by Microsoft.

OpenOffice.org XML is an open XML-based file format developed as an open community effort[1][2][3] by Sun Microsystems and other OpenOffice.org project contributors in 2000-2002. The open-source software application suite OpenOffice.org 1.x and StarOffice 6 used the format as their native and default file format for saving files. In 2005, the OpenOffice.org (since version 2.0) and StarOffice (since version 8) have switched to a new standardized file format - OpenDocument, as their native and default format.[4][5] The OpenOffice.org XML format is no longer widely used, but it is still supported in recent versions of OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and other software.

OpenDocument format (ISO/IEC 26300:2006) is based on OpenOffice.org XML and these formats are very similar in many technical areas.[6][7] However, OpenDocument is not the same as the older OpenOffice.org XML format and these formats are not directly compatible.

StarOffice developers and later OpenOffice.org project members adopted XML to replace the old binary StarOffice file format. The goal was to have a complete specification encompassing all StarOffice (later OpenOffice.org) components, and to provide an open standard for office documents. The draft version of OpenOffice.org XML specification was also known as StarOffice XML File Format.[8]

Contents

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.

File type OpenOffice.org/StarOffice component File (template) suffixes MIME
Text Writer sxw (stw) application/vnd.sun.xml.writer
application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.template[9]
Spreadsheet Calc sxc (stc) application/vnd.sun.xml.calc
application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.template
Graphics Draw sxd (std) application/vnd.sun.xml.draw
application/vnd.sun.xml.draw.template
Presentation Impress sxi (sti) application/vnd.sun.xml.impress
application/vnd.sun.xml.impress.template
Formula Math sxm application/vnd.sun.xml.math
Master document Writer sxg application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.global
HTML Writer html (stw) text/html
application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.web

Implementations

See also: Comparison of word processors
See also: Comparison of spreadsheets

See also

References

  1. ^ OpenOffice.org Foundation (2000-07-19). "Welcome to the OpenOffice.org Source Project (archived website)". Archived from the original on 2000-08-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20000815055517/http://www.openoffice.org/. Retrieved 2010-08-08. 
  2. ^ OpenOffice.org Foundation (2000-08-10). "The OpenOffice.org Project". Archived from the original on 2000-08-23. http://web.archive.org/web/20000823051154/http://www.openoffice.org/project/www/openofficefoundation.html#standards_process. Retrieved 2010-08-08. 
  3. ^ "History of OpenDocument". 2006-08-28. http://opendocument.xml.org/milestones. Retrieved 2010-08-08. 
  4. ^ "Sun Introduces New Version of StarOffice Software" (Press release). Sun Microsystems, Inc.. 2005-09-27. http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-09/sunflash.20050927.1.xml. Retrieved 2007-09-20. 
  5. ^ "OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here" (Press release). OpenOffice.org. 2005-10-20. http://www.openoffice.org/press/2.0/press_release.html. Retrieved 2007-09-20. 
  6. ^ "OpenOffice.org XML File Format". http://xml.openoffice.org/general.html. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  7. ^ "file extension SXW - OpenOffice.org Writer document". http://www.file-extensions.org/sxw-file-extension. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  8. ^ (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 
  9. ^ "Mime Content Types used in OpenOffice.org1.0 / StarOffice 4.x and later". http://framework.openoffice.org/documentation/mimetypes/mimetypes.html. Retrieved 2010-06-05. 
  10. ^ "Abiword PluginMatrix". http://www.abisource.com/wiki/PluginMatrix. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  11. ^ "EditGrid Viewer". http://www.editgrid.com/viewer. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  12. ^ "The file formats which Gnumeric can read". http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/doc/sect-file-open-formats.shtml. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  13. ^ "SoftMaker Office 2006 for Windows". http://www.softmakeroffice.com/. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  14. ^ "TextMaker Viewer 2010". http://www.officeviewers.com/. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  15. ^ "Zoho Sheet Features". http://sheet.zoho.com/features. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  16. ^ "Zoho Writer - Frequently Asked Questions". http://writer.zoho.com/public/help/zohowriterfaq/fullpage. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  17. ^ "Zoho Show 2.0 - Frequently Asked Questions & Answers". http://show.zoho.com/help/faq/faq.html. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  18. ^ "Zoho Viewer". http://viewer.zoho.com/. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  19. ^ "Zoho Sheet - Online Excel Viewer". http://sheet.zoho.com/excelviewer. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 
  20. ^ "Zoho QuickRead". http://writer.zoho.com/public/help/zohoquickread/fullpage. Retrieved 2010-03-27. 

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Editable document formats
Fixed document formats