Harmonization and Interop: The dizzying dance of ODF, OOXML, and CDF - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Feb 08
  

  Gary Edwards

  <p>Will the real universal document format please stand up! Comments on the recent article posted by the Universal Interoperability Council: <i>"Putting Andy Updegrove to bed without his supper".</i></p>
  
  <p>The UIC article is well worth your time. It is extremely well referenced and researched. The arguments put forth counter claims by IBM and OASIS that the W3C's CDF format can not be used to represent desktop productivity environment documents. Not surprisingly, IBM and OASIS argue that the OpenOffice specific ODF is the only alternative to Microsoft Office specific OOXML.</p>
  
  <p>The UIC argues that the full range of MSOffice legacy binary documents and emerging XML documents can fully be represented in CDF - something that not even the most ardent of ODF jihadists would claim as an ODF capabilitiy. The truth is that ODF was not designed for the conversion of MSOffice binary and xml documents.</p>
  

  IBM OASIS UIC W3C cdf interop odf ooxml opendocument openxml

  • With the ISO BRM fast approaching, the harmonization of ODF and OOXML is all the rage. The legendary marbux takes on this discussion arguing that ODF and OOXML both lack the interoperability framework needed to meet ISO directives describing interop requirements. He argues that interop between MSOffice and OpenOffice can be achieved using CDF.

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