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Open-source document standard submitted to standards body

Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 11th of October 2005 02:57:51 PM Filed under
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The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis), which is behind OpenDocument, said it has submitted the standard to the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).

OpenDocument is a document format for storing data from desktop applications such as word processors, spreadsheets and presentation software.

The standard is used by the open-source OpenOffice.org desktop collaboration suite.

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