OpenOffice.org XML

"Open Office XML" redirects here. Not to be confused with Office Open XML.
This article is about the default file format used by OpenOffice.org 1. For the default file format of later OpenOffice.org versions and an international standard, see OpenDocument.

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]

  1. ^ OpenOffice.org Foundation (2000-07-19). "Welcome to the OpenOffice.org Source Project (archived website)". Archived from the original on 2000-08-15. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
  2. ^ OpenOffice.org Foundation (2000-08-10). "The OpenOffice.org Project". Archived from the original on 2000-08-23. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
  3. ^ "History of OpenDocument". 2006-08-28. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
  4. ^ "OpenOffice.org XML File Format". Retrieved 2010-03-27.
  5. ^ "file extension SXW - OpenOffice.org Writer document". Retrieved 2010-03-27.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here" (Press release). OpenOffice.org. 2005-10-20. Retrieved 2007-09-20.