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Office OpenXML

The deluge of electronic documentation has resulted in the creation of a wide variety of document formats. With globalization forces and geographically spread locations, the need to share these formats has become increasingly important. Major inhibitors to seamless sharing of information are multiple, non-compatible electronic document formats. Microsoft understood the pressing requirement for interoperability of document formats and decided to support XML through their Office OpenXML (OOXML) initiative.

Professionals across an organization can hugely benefit from the common data format provided by XML because of its capacity to be read by varied applications, platforms and Internet browsers.

SONATA and Office OpenXML

	Leveraging its in-depth expertise in multiple platforms, Sonata has been able to contribute significantly to the OOXML developer community through www.openxmldeveloper.org.
	Being an early evangelizer of OOXML, Sonata, in collaboration with Microsoft, has delivered workshops on it in over 11 countries across Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America.
	Sonata is an active participant in developing plug-ins for interoperability between OOXML and the Open Document Format (ODF).
	PowerPoint Translator (OOXML to ODF and vice versa). Being an early adopter of OOXML, Sonata has created an open source translator plug-in for Microsoft PowerPoint, which can translate OOXML presentation document to ODF presentation document and vice versa. For more details on this project, click on http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/
	DAISY translator (OOXML to DTBook format) Sonata has created an open source translator plug-in for Microsoft Word, which can translate a Microsoft Word document to DTBook format. For more information and related artifacts, click on https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxml-daisy