Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 31st Oct 2007 19:29 UTC, submitted by WillM
A group formed five years ago to promote the OpenDocument Format has abandoned ODF and will favor one developed by the World Wide Web Consortium known as the 'Compound Document Format', or CDF. The OpenDocument Foundation's format failed to meet market requirements, the group said.
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RE[2]: Authenticity and newsworthyness
by Znark on Wed 31st Oct 2007 23:13
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Nothing currently supports CDF since CDF isn't a file format. It is a framework for combining different formats in a single document. Some browsers already support XHTML files containing SVG and MathML; these are compound documents by inclusion. Normal web pages could be considered compound documents by reference with CSS and SVG being referenced by XHTML. The combination of XHTML, CSS, and XForms are the WICD profile.
I suppose you could declare ODF or OOXML to be in CDF since they have multiple XML languages linked and included together to form a single document.
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2005-06-30
Frankly, I'm not sure what your point is.
Of course this story is newsworthy in its own right. It is worth mentioning the fact that the OpenDocument Foundation has little actual influence on the OpenDocument Format though. There is definitely room for confusion.
With respect to the decision made by the Foundation, I'm curious to know what products actually support CDF.