Public Review of OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) 1.0

["Mary McRae" <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

To OASIS Members, Announce Lists

The OASIS Open Office XML Format TC has recently approved the OASIS Open 
Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) 1.0 specification 
as a Committee Draft and in its last meeting has approved it for public 
review. The public review starts today, 4 January 2005 and ends 
3 February 2005.

Public review from potential users, developers and stakeholders is an 
important part of the OASIS process to assure interoperability and 
quality. Comments are solicited from all interested parties.  Comments 
may be submitted to the TC by any person via a web form found on the 
TC's web page at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office. Click 
the button for "Send A Comment" at the top of the page.

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) 
Are publicly archived and can be viewed at 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/.

Below is a short description of the specification and a list of files.

Description
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The OpenDocument specification 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 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.

Files
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The file are available here:

1. The Committee Draft specification is available in OpenOffice.org XML file
format and in PDF format. The committee draft contains three embedded
Relax-NG schemas.
  a) the schema for office documents (specified in chapters 1 to 16),
  b) the normative schema for the manifest file used by OpenDocument
     package format (specified in chapter 17), and
  c) the strict schema for office documents that permits only meta
     information and formatting properties contained in this
     specification itself (specified in appendix A).

The OpenOffice.org XML version of the specification is located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/10766/office-spec-1.0-cd-2
.sxw

The PDF version is at

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/10765/office-spec-1.0-cd-2
.pdf


2. The normative Relax-NG schema for office documents extracted from
chapters 1 to 16 of the specification document is available at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/10764/office-schema-1.0-cd
-2.rng


3. The normative Relax-NG schema for manifest files extracted from chapter
17 of the specification document is available at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/10762/office-manifest-sche
ma-1.0-cd-2.rng


4. The normative Relax-NG strict schema for office documents extracted from
appendix A of the specification document is available at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/10763/office-strict-schema
-1.0-cd-2.rng

Mary P McRae
OASIS 
Manager of TC Administration
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org  
web: www.oasis-open.org