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.ODT is an Open Document format for word processing (text) documents.
It is mainly used for OpenOffice.org Writer, the word processor
of the OpenOffice/StarOffice, the first office suit supporting
the OASIS* Open Document format. Though .ODT may be adopted by
other products as well
OpenDocument is as short for the OASIS Open Document Format for
Office Applications. It is an open format for saving and exchanging
electronic documents. This standard was developed by the OASIS
industry consortium and based upon the XML format originally created
by OpenOffice.org. OpenDocument was approved as an OASIS standard
on May 1, 2005, and became an officially published ISO and IEC
International Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) on November 30, 2006 under
the name ISO/IEC 26300:2006.[1]
An Open Document file can be either a simple XML file that uses
<office:document> as the root element, or a ZIP compressed
archive containing a number of files and directories. The ZIP-based
format is used almost exclusively, since it can contain binary
content and tends to be significantly smaller.
.ODT file is XML in a ZIP wrapper.
*OASIS is a not-for-profit, global consortium that drives the
development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards.
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