Apple on Team Formalizing OpenDocument Support

The team, led by IBM and Sun Microsystems, met to formalize support for the OpenDocument standard for Office Applications and to promote it. Formalization would occur through the formation of subcommittees within the Web standards consortium Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. The OpenDocument specification will standardize documents based on the Extensible Markup Language file format. It includes those elements required for text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents. Of course, the standard is not supported by Microsoft which uses its proprietary formats to dominate the field. More... [Dana Baggett]