The OpenOffice.org XML file format is zip archive including several components all of which are text files, most of these with markup in the eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
Gnumeric can both open and save files in this format and plans to continue to support this format in the future.
| Name: | OASIS XML, OpenOffice.org XML, StarOffice |
| Extensions: | .sxc |
| Compatible Programs: | OpenOffice.org Calc, StarCalc |
| Open / Save: | Both |
Supported by the 'OpenCalc/StarCalc' plugin.
The file format is a zip archive containing several text and XML elements: a mimetype file giving the mime type, a content.xml file with the contents of the spreadsheet cells, and several other files with meta data, style definitions or information on the settings. The file contents can be extracted with the unzip command line program or with any of a number of graphical interface programs.
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has accepted this file format as the standard "OASIS Open Office XML Format". The published specification for the file format is available from the OASIS Open Office XML Format Technical Committee web page. Other information is available from the OpenOffice.org XML File Format web page, part of the OpenOffice.org project.
Files in this format can be imported and modified by the OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet or may be modified through XML processing.