ODF 1.2 specification , which aimed to improve the workflow document type spreadsheet, has been approved by the members of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

This new specification of the standard Open Document Format is a great improvement in ODF 1.1, which was launched in 2006, which marked the launch of a free format be interoperable documents not only between different operating systems, but also between different suites and office applications.

The most important change is the new ODF 1.2 support spreadsheets. While the previous format was confusing and did problems with backward compatibility, the new spreadsheet module has been rewritten from scratch, something that affects eg the formulas used in these documents.

Another fundamental change is the support of metadata RDF (Resource Description Framework), a W3C standard model for the exchange of data on the web. Something like “steroids hyperlinks ,” said Michiel Leenaars, director of the ISOC.

companies working with Microsoft Office will particularly benefit from this specification, and that while other developers have already been implementing ODF 1.2 in the applications of Microsoft Office Suite still works with ODF 1.1 from Office 2007 SP2 . You can find documentation on ODF 1.2 in this repository.