ISO/IEC approves OASIS OpenDocument Standard
OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, announced that the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology Standardization has approved the OpenDocument Standard for release as ISO/IEC 26300. The press release was posted today, May 8 2006.
The OpenDocument standard defines an open XML file format for office applications, so users of office suites can freely exchange text, spreadsheets, charts, graphs, presentations, and databases. OpenDocument was ratified as an OASIS standard in May 2005.