Compound Document Format

This article is about the W3C document standard. For a general description of compound documents, see Compound document.

For the format developed by Microsoft, see Compound File Binary Format.

Compound Document Format

Developed by	W3C
Type of format	Document file format
Extended from	XML, SVG, XHTML, SMIL, XForms
Website	CDF

Compound Document Format (CDF) is a set of W3C candidate standards describing electronic compound document file formats that contains multiple formats, such as SVG, XHTML, SMIL and XForms. The core standards are the Web Integration Compound Document and the Compound Document by Reference Framework (CDR). As of August 19, 2010, the Compound Document Format working group has been closed, and W3C's development of the standard discontinued.

See also

• Electronic prescribing
• Compound File Binary Format

External links

• Official website
• ARS Technica Feature
• The Standards blog "Putting the OpenDocument Foundation to Bed (without its supper)" Archived 2008-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Marbux "Putting Andy Updegrove to Bed (without his supper)", Setting the Record Straight - Universal Interoperability Council, 6 February 2008