The Open Source Business Alliance has created a working group that should ensure that LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org better can handle the documents according to the ooxml standard are stored.
The ooxml file format, or Office Open XML is a Microsoft-developed specification for the storage of documents and in 2008 by ISO as a standard is adopted. Microsoft fits the file format, recognizable from for example the extension ‘.docx’, now wide in its Office packages, while OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice also standardized odf file format, choose.
Open source office suites as LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org can although ooxml-files to read and write, but in the eyes of a number of government agencies from Germany and Switzerland, united in the Open Source Business Alliance, to perform both of these packages still insufficient. They have the working group Office Interoperability established with the aim of better handling of ooxml-documents in the two Office alternatives.
The working group will focus in the coming time in a number of subgroups dealing with the drafting of a list of requirements and creating test documents. Also will the Open Source Business Alliance external developers to attract for the project and provide them any financial compensation for their work. The final result will be released under the Apache License 2.0 license.