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Table of Contents 


 

1. Introduction

1.1. Scope

1.2 Abbreviations

1.3 References

 

1.4 Open Formats

2. XML and related standards

2.1 XML

2.2 Office OPEN XML - ISO/IEC DIS 29500

 
 

Some Feautres of OpenXML Draft Standard Draft

  1. Internationalization: OpenXML supports internationalization features required by such diverse languages as Arabic, Chinese (three variants), Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Turkish. OpenXML inherently supports Unicode because it is XML. In addition, OpenXML has a rich set of internationalization features that have been refined over the course of many years.
  1. Low barrier to developer adaption: An experienced developer can begin to write simple OpenXML-conformant applications within a few hours of beginning to read the Specification. Although the specification describes a large feature set and the standard draft is very long, an OpenXML-conformant application need not support all of features in the Specification.
 
  1. Compactness: The Open XML file format supports the creation of high-performance applications. The main reason for it is that an Open XML file is conventionally stored in a ZIP archive for purposes of packaging and compression, following the recommended implementation of the Open Packaging Conventions. As a result Open XML files are on average 25% smaller, and at times up to 75% smaller, than their binary counterparts. A second simple source of compactness, particularly where an uncompressed representation is required, is the length of identifiers in the XML. Frequently used tag names are short. Implementers are encouraged to use short namespace prefixes.
 
  1. Modularity: An application can accomplish many tasks by parsing or modifying a small subset of the document. Three features of the Open XML format cooperate to provide this modularity.
 
  1. Integration with business data: Open XML enables organizations to integrate productivity applications with information systems that manage business processes by enabling the use of custom schemas within Open XML documents. An organization’s goals in taking this approach would be to reuse and to automate the processing of business information that is otherwise buried opaquely inside documents, where business applications cannot read or write it.
 
  1. Room for innovation: Open XML is designed to encourage developers to create new applications that were not contemplated when the binary formats were defined, or even when Open XML was defined [2].


 

2.3 ODF - ISO/IEC 26300


 

3 Discussions related to ODF and Open XML

3.1  ODF  


 

3.2  Open XML

 


 

1 www.xml.org, www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/



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