{"id":10016,"date":"2021-06-25T11:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10016"},"modified":"2021-06-25T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T12:59:00","slug":"odf-1-3-becomes-oasis-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10016","title":{"rendered":"ODF 1.3 becomes OASIS standard"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-689\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2012\/11\/ODF_textdocument_48x48.png\" alt=\"ODF file icon\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/>Version 1.3 of OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (ODF) has been approved as an OASIS Committee Standard, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.documentfoundation.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/23\/odf-1-3-is-an-oasis-standard\/\">Italo Vignoli writes<\/a> on The Document Foundation (TDF) blog.<\/p>\r\n<p>ODF is a free, open <acronym title=\"eXtensible Mark-up Language\">XML<\/acronym>-based document file format for office applications for use for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical elements. In addition,ODF is the native file format used by TDF&#8217;s free and open source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a> productivity suite, as well as other free and open source suites such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">Apache OpenOffice<\/a>, whilst the format can also be handled by major proprietary office suites. Furthermore, ODF has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/using-open-document-formats-odf-in-your-organisation\">adopted<\/a> by the UK government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/groups\/open-standards-board\">Open Standards Board<\/a> for document exchange with citizens and other victims.<\/p>\r\n<p>ODF 1.3 is an update to the international standard Version 1.2, which was approved by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iso.org\/home.html\">International Organization for Standardization<\/a> (ISO) as ISO\/IEC 26300 (2015). The update was approved with 14 affirmative consents and no objections.<\/p>\r\n<p>The most important new features of ODF 1.3 include digital signatures for documents and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openpgp.org\/about\/\">OpenPGP<\/a>-based encryption of XML documents, with improvements in areas such as change tracking and document security, additional details in the description of elements in first pages, text, numbers and charts.<\/p>\r\n<p>The full ODF 1.3 Specification can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oasis-open.org\/\">OASIS website<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The new version of ODF has been funded by TDF.<\/p>\r\n<p>Finally, it is hoped that the new ODF 1.3 will complete the process to update its existing ISO\/IEC standard 26300 in early 2022.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 1.3 of OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (ODF) has been approved as an OASIS Committee Standard, Italo Vignoli writes on The Document Foundation (TDF) blog. ODF is a free, open XML-based document file format for office applications for use for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical elements. 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