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internetnews.com: A Standard Set For The Office

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“Officials at the non-profit standards body OASIS (Organization
for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) announced
Monday its approval of the OpenDocuments 1.0 specification as a
standard.

“The ratification puts OASIS’ seal of approval on a single
XML-based file format for text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical
documents — an area dominated by Microsoft and its popular Office
suite…

“The OpenDocument standard is based on code originally developed
for the open source OpenOffice.org project…”

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