• Comparison of OpenDocument and Microsoft Office Open XML formats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Microsoft Office Open XML and OpenDocument are two competing XML-based formats for documents intended for use in office productivity software. Both formats combine XML content with other (media) files into compressed ZIP archives. In both formats, the main office document content and presentation information is stored as XML, with the ability to reference embedded and external (binary) content such as BMP, GIF, JPEG. Both support a subset of the Dublin Core metadata standard.There is debate about technical merit between supporters of each format. Also an issue in terms of the success of the formats is the politics of adoption. The technical arguments, as in other battles for standards, could turn out to be less important than customer perception....
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• ONLamp.com -- What Is OpenDocument
  Sam Hiser looks at the OpenDocument Format (ODF), how it implements XML for office documents, the technical and political wranglings in the standard, available tools, applications that offer ODF support, who's implementing ODF, and more.
  Sam Hiser looks at the OpenDocument Format (ODF), how it implements XML for office documents, the technical and political wranglings in the standard, available tools, applications that offer ODF support, who's implementing ODF, and more.
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