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Document Formats Go Both Ways

By David Worthington

February 12, 2007 —

Programmers are crossing the lines in the document standards war of words. Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft partisans are locked mid-battle over dueling standards, but despite the rhetoric over which format is best, significant work is being done to make documents interoperable.

The Microsoft-sponsored OpenXML Translator add-in for Word was released shortly after Office Open XML's (OOXML) submission to ISO for standardization. French consulting company Clever Age led the charge to complete the software as a SourceForge project, providing Microsoft Office users with a two-way ODF/OOXML converter.

There may be a degree of interoperability, but there is no document detente. Sun Microsystems has announced an add-on for StarOffice 8 that will convert between ODF and Office Word 2003. Sun is positioning its add-on toward companies that are transitioning away from Office's .DOC format to the ISO standard ODF.

Likewise, Microsoft is steering users away from .DOC to OOXML, which also may be designated as an ISO standard. Unlike ODF, OOXML is designed to handle several generations of the Word format.

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