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- From: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
- Subject: Re: ODA Information required
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.213656.25874@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 21:36:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.203759.1@vax1.tcd.ie> joflhrty@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
- > This is probably not the right forum but does anyone know here I could get
- >information about the ODA standard.
- >
- >Jerome O'Flaherty
-
- ODA (Open Document Architecture) is ECMA 101. It has been adopted as
- CCITT T.410, and as ISO 8613 (the latter under its original title of
- Office Document Architecture). It is a standard for describing various
- features of the structure of a document, in both its revisable
- (editable) and presentation (formatted) forms.
-
- For an introduction see the article in "IEEE Computer", October 1985.
-
- To some extent SGML (and associated standards like DSSSL and HyTime)
- are making it less likely that ODA will become universal, though it
- is certainly being used here and there. (Anyone know of any major users
- of, or applications for, ODA?)
- --
- Alasdair Grant, Mainframe Systems Group / Small Systems Integration Group
- Cambridge University, UK
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