• Shopping Cart
    There are no items in your cart

ISO/IEC TR 29166:2011

Current

Current

The latest, up-to-date edition.

Information technology — Document description and processing languages — Guidelines for translation between ISO/IEC 26300 and ISO/IEC 29500 document formats

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF , PDF 3 Users , PDF 5 Users , PDF 9 Users

Language(s)

English

Published date

07-12-2011

Free

OASIS Open Document Format ODF 1.0 (ISO/IEC 26300) and Office Open XML (ISO/IEC 29500) are both open document formats for saving and exchanging word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Both formats are XML based but differ in design and scope.

ISO/IEC TR 29166:2012 aims at analysing the two International Standards and their underlying concepts in terms of interoperability issues for a selected set of features. It analyses the way these features are implemented in both International Standards and estimates the degree of translatability between them using a table-based comparison. ISO/IEC TR 29166:2012 serves as a preliminary technical translation guideline for evaluating translatability between certain parts of the two International Standards. It does not compare different implementations which can cause additional kinds of interoperability problems.

It starts by studying common use cases to identify how the most important functionalities of one document format can be represented in the other format. This is followed by a thorough review of the concepts, architectures and various features of the two document formats in order to provide a good understanding of the commonalities and differences. It is expected that functionalities will be able to be translated with different degrees of fidelity to the other format. As an illustrative sample of this functionality, detailed information is provided on the extent to which those functionalities can be translated.

ISO/IEC TR 29166:2012 addresses both developers seeking to implement either ISO/IEC 26300 or ISO/IEC 29500 and template designers and other power users whose competences cut across the spectrum of XML and XML-related technologies which directly or remotely deal with one or both of the two International Standards. ISO/IEC TR 29166:2012 will be of great assistance to those seeking to exchange documents between formats, to extract data from or import data into documents, or to write applications supporting the two formats. ISO/IEC TR 29166:2012 is a necessary step to the goal of helping achieve interoperability and harmonization between the two formats. It should encourage standards bodies as well as the developers of office suites to translate some of the ideas into future versions of the standards and products.

Committee
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
156
PublisherName
International Organization for Standardization
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
BS PD ISO/IEC TR 29166 : 2012 Identical
NEN NPR ISO/IEC TR 29166 : 2011 Identical
PD ISO/IEC TR 29166:2011 Identical

ISO 5127:2017 Information and documentation Foundation and vocabulary
BS ISO 5127:2017 Information and documentation. Foundation and vocabulary
14/30255584 DC : 0 BS ISO 5127 - INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION - FOUNDATION AND VOCABULARY

ISO/IEC 29500-4:2016 Information technology — Document description and processing languages — Office Open XML File Formats — Part 4: Transitional Migration Features
ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Information technology — Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0
ISO/IEC 10746-3:2009 Information technology Open distributed processing Reference model: Architecture Part 3:
ISO/IEC 29500-3:2015 Information technology — Document description and processing languages — Office Open XML File Formats — Part 3: Markup Compatibility and Extensibility
ISO/IEC 29500-2:2012 Information technology Document description and processing languages Office Open XML File Formats Part 2: Open Packaging Conventions
ISO/IEC 29500-1:2016 Information technology — Document description and processing languages — Office Open XML File Formats — Part 1: Fundamentals and Markup Language Reference
ISO/IEC 10746-1:1998 Information technology — Open Distributed Processing — Reference model: Overview — Part 1:

Access your standards online with a subscription

Features

  • Simple online access to standards, technical information and regulations.

  • Critical updates of standards and customisable alerts and notifications.

  • Multi-user online standards collection: secure, flexible and cost effective.