Open text formats

Open text formats

Posted Mar 16, 2006 10:24 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525)
Parent article: The next generation office suite

It's nice to see OOo's format as published standard, but this all reminds me on "standards are good. Everybody should have one. There already is an OASIS document format, it's called DocBook. Why not adopt it (it's a reasonable powerful format), and maybe extend it where needed? And anyway: The OASIS standards are a bit lacking. For DocBook, it's completely ok to push the actual rendering out of the standard - it's more a data interchange format than a real document format (people render DocBook by converting the XML to LaTeX or by importing into Framemaker). But finally, if you write a document, you also might want to control how it looks like after being formatted.

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