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In the category of interesting XML applications: Sun StarOffice XML formats as presented in the recently- published "StarOffice XML File Format Technical Reference Manual". "This manual describes the StarOffice XML file format. We adopted XML as the new native file format for the StarOffice suite, replacing the old binary file format. Our goal is twofold: to have a complete specification encompassing all StarOffice components, and to provide an open standard for office documents. In our opinion, XML is ideal as an open standard because of the free availability of XML specifications and document type declarations (DTDs), and the XML support for XSL, XSLT, XLink, SVG, MathML, and many other important and emerging standards. One single XML format applies to different types of documents, for example, the same definition applies to tables in text documents and tables in spreadsheets. . . Each structural component in a StarOffice XML document is represented by an element, with associated attributes. The structure of XML documents applies to all StarOffice applications. There is no difference between a text document, a spreadsheet or a drawing, apart from the content." The provisional DTDs are available from the CVS repository. The sources for Sun's StarOffice are now available under "dual licensing": GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Sun Industry Standard Source License (SISSL). See: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgmlnew.html (news item) http://xml.openoffice.org/xml_spec_draft.pdf (spec) http://xml.openoffice.org/ (XML formats) http://www.openoffice.org/license.html (licenses) http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/starOfficeXML.html (summary)
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