Microsoft-led forum yields tools for OOXML interoperability

[dhilipkumar]

Microsoft-led forum yields tools for OOXML interoperability


A German organization plans to build a tool to help developers test whether software they're developing can support documents compatible with the latest version of the Open Office XML (OOXML) standard.


"If they want to generate a document [in the software] they will have some way of verifying that the document would support ISO29500," he said.

ISO29500 is the current version of OOXML that has been approved by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) as an international document format.

They also unveiled improvements to the Open XML-ODF Translator, which improves interoperability between the ODF and the Open XML formats. Users of Office 2003 and XP users who want to edit ODF documents continue to depend on this translator technology to do so.