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.
The draft version was also known as StarOffice XML File Format.
[8] The stated goal in the draft was: Our goal is twofold: to have a complete specification encompassing all StarOffice components, and to provide an open standard for office documents.The format uses XML files to describe the documents.
To minimize space, the files are compressed into an archive and given a suffix depending on what sort of data is contained in them.