opendocument

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
OpenDocument
ISO/IEC 26300
OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications

   <file format, standard> (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, OASIS Open
   Document Format for Office Applications) An {XML} {file
   format} for {office} documents, such as {spreadsheets},
   charts, presentations, databases and {word processing}.

   OpenDocument was developed by the Open Office XML technical
   committee of the Organization for the Advancement of
   Structured Information Standards ({OASIS}) consortium.  It is
   based on the XML format originally created and implemented by
   the {OpenOffice.org} {office suite}.  OpenDocument is an open
   standard, i.e. freely available and implementable.

   Compare {OOXML}.

   (2007-09-19)