History

• OASIS Open Office XML charter (extract)

• • The purpose of this TC is to create an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications.
  • The resulting file format must meet the following requirements:
  • • it must be suitable for office documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents,
    • it must retain high-level information suitable for editing the document,
    • it must be friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based languages or tools,
    • it should 'borrow' from similar, existing standards wherever possible and permitted.