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  • document-wars

    Document Wars

    8 members,364 bookmarks

    Document Wars covers the portable XML document battle between OpenDocument, Office Open XML, and CDF, the W3C's Compound Document Format. The relationship to the Grand Convergence of desktop, server, device and web systems will be decisive, with application independence and universal interoperabili

  • opendocument

    OpenDocument

    19 members,376 bookmarks

    A collection of comments and discussions concerning OpenDocument and the challenge presented by Microsoft's Office Open XML.

  • UT_TIS

    UT Libraries Technology Pros

    9 members,364 bookmarks

    Technology pros at the University of Texas Libraries.

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Saved by 6 people (2 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-02-13


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Of course, the most important conversion isn't from OpenDoc to OOXML or vice versa: it's a down conversion from either OpenDoc or OOXML to XHTML. The HTML exporters in OpenOffice and Microsoft Office are uniformly atrocious. Look for third-party developers to pick up the slack. Most important, look for individual corporate developers and webmasters to begin publishing custom templates for their sites. This will enable regular folks to write in Microsoft Word as they're accustomed to doing and then upload their musings straight into the local content-management system. Editing and reviewing tools can be built right in. Because machines generate all the markup (the humans see the GUI interface they're used to), well-formedness will be a freebie. The majority of the Web won't be well-formed by the end of 2008, but a larger percentage will be than today.

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