by Rick Jelliffe, O'Reilly Articles

by Dmitri Popov, Linux Magazine

This cover story provides an introduction to OpenDocument and the applications that support the format. It discusses ODF compatibility, exploring how well word processors like AbiWord, Kword, and Writely handle an ODT document created in OpenOffice. The article also demonstrates an ODF add-in for opening an ODF file in Microsoft Word.

 

The introductory white paper "Open by Design - The Advantages of the OpenDocument Format (ODF)" has been published by the OASIS OpenDocument Format Adoption TC. The document can be found here.

This is an excellent technical tutorial revealing the complementary relationship of two open standards: OpenDocument Format (ISO 26300) and W3C's XForms.  The tutorial presents the basic concepts of XForms, illustrating how to create form controls whose data is bound to parts of an XML data instance, and how to save that data in a local file or send it to a server.

Using open document data to build innovative new solutions - an IBM White Paper.

This short white paper explores several approaches to using ODF XML document data other than found in today's implementations of personal productivity applications. See the link below for some other uses of ODF enumerated by Rob Weir of IBM.