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OpenDocument Voted In By ISO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

cduffy writes "OpenDocument has been voted in as ISO/IEC 26300, with no dissenting votes and a small number of abstentions. There are still several formalities to take place before final issuance. Now the question: Will OpenXML get the same treatment, despite its technical weaknesses? There's also coverage on Groklaw."

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  1. Good news by spectrumCoder · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If Microsoft implements OpenDocument (or anything like it) in Office 2007 it will make a lot of people very happy.

    A blank Word document takes up eleven kilobytes, and a one page document takes up about forty. If this becomes the de facto standard for documents rather than the Word document format, then document file sizes will shrink significantly, and a lot of bandwidth and disk space on office networks will be saved as a result.

  2. Re:Hopefully not... by DrXym · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nicer from a human point of view means less bugs down the line. I just spent a week trying to get an .wsdl to parse through Axis AND .NET's wsdl.exe. Any format that is less opaque, less verbose and more understandable gets my vote.