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 (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.^[1] 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; W3C's development of the standard has discontinued.^[2]

Compound Document Format

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

See also

• Electronic prescribing
• Compound File Binary Format