OASIS Releases OpenDocument 1.0 Committee Draft Specification for Public Review - OASIS has announced the release of Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) 1.0 Committee Draft Version 2 for public review prior to consideration of the specification for approval as an OASIS Standard. The second revision of the OASIS OpenDocument CD specification, previously called the Open Office Specification, contains revised definitions in response to new developments in the office application space, as well as error corrections and clarifications. The 723-page Committee Draft includes three embedded Relax-NG schemas. The OASIS TC was chartered to define an XML-based file format specification for office applications that would be compatible with the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) v1.0 and W3C Namespaces in XML v1.0 specifications. According to the TC’s requirements, this format should “(1) retain high-level information suitable for editing the document, (2) be suitable for office documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents, (3) be friendly to transformations using XSLT or similar XML-based languages or tools; (4) keep the document’s content and layout information separate such that they can be processed independently of each other, and (5) borrow from similar, existing standards wherever possible and permitted.” Public review of the OASIS Committee Draft is invited from potential users, developers and other stakeholders. It constitutes “an important part of the OASIS process to assure interoperability and quality. Comments are therefore solicited from all interested parties.” The 30-day public review period ends on February 3, 2005.