OpenDocument Text

File Format
Name	OpenDocument Text
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Document OpenDocument Text
Extension(s)	.fodt, .odt
MIME Type(s)	application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
PRONOM	fmt/136,fmt/290,fmt/291
Released	2005-05-01

The OpenDocument Text format is one of a number of types of the Open Document Format for Office Applications (commonly referred to as OpenDocument), an XML-based file format defined by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) in 2005.

OpenDocument Text can, like all OpenDocument files, be represented in one of two fashions - as a single XML document or as a collection of several sub-documents within a single package (commonly a ZIP archive). Generally, the extension .fodt is used for the uncommonly-used single XML documents and .odt for packaged sub-documents.

Information

• OpenDocument v1.0 specification
• OpenDocument v1.1 specification
• OpenDocument v1.2 specification
• Wikipedia - OpenDocument

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 seems to have some issues adhering to the OpenDocument standard. See the following link for more information;

• Depth of Knowledge: ODF 1.2 Support in Microsoft Office

Links

• Versioning of OpenOffice/LibreOffice Documents Using Git