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Standard/Technology Name: OpenDocument Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument)
Version:1.0
Type:Open document formats
Developing Organization:OASIS
Contributor:International Business Machines, Inc. (IBM)

The document defines an XML schema for office applications and its semantics. The schema is suitable for office documents, including text documents, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents like drawings or presentations, but is not restricted to these kinds of documents. The schema provides for high-level information suitable for editing documents. It defines suitable XML structures for office documents and is friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based tools.

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