XML provides a tag format that allows content providers to "wrap" data in identifying tags describing that data. Typical examples include distinguishing an author's name from article content by ...

For example, according to a blog entry by IBM's vice president of standards and open source Bob Sutor, "I hope this is obvious to all, [IBM is] still very big supporters of ODF." ...

That would allow a certain degree of leeway in terms of interoperability, as there is nothing here that would seem to cover reading a Microsoft-generated XML document, for example.

Learn More. The first draft of the Office Open XML file format specification, which Microsoft submitted to standards body Ecma International in November 2005, has been published.

Microsoft officials announced on January 9 that the next version of Office for the Mac will be dubbed "Office 2008 for Mac," and will ship in the latter half of this year. Converters needed to ...

Documents using the new XML file format will use slightly different extensions from eariler versions: .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint respectively, and Office 12 will be ...

News ReportMill 7 adds new XML file format, more By Brad Cook FEB 3, 2004 4:00 pm PST ...