[odf-discuss] New OASIS TC forming

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Statement of Purpose

The purpose of this TC is to create an open, XML-based operation
standard for unstructured documents. The Unstructured Operation Markup
Language specification will define an XML schema for universal
document operations. The schema is suitable for operating printable
documents, including create, view, modify, and query information, that
can be printed on paper, e.g., books, magazine, newspaper, office
documents, maps, drawings, blueprints, but is not restricted to these
kinds of documents. There are several commercial and free applications
available based on the current draft of UOML cited below, with more
currently under development.

Scope

The resulting specification must meet the following requirements:

    * It must be suitable for printable documents
    * It must define universal operations to these documents,
including create, view, modify, query and retrieve
    * It must be compatible with the W3C Extensible Markup Language
(XML) v1.0 and W3C Namespaces in XML v1.0 specifications
    * It must process layout-based information suitable for presenting
the document
    * It must be friendly to document related applications
    * It must be cross-platform and program language independent

The existing UOML.org XML format specification was developed to meet
the above criteria. It is anticipated that it will be contributed to
the TC as a starting point for its work. A standard for document
operation will be of great utility to many users and software
companies developing applications, and should be made available as
soon as possible.

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Related and Similar Work

Developers and users of office application and document formatting
specifications such as the OASIS OpenDocument Format ("ODF") may find
UOML useful. However, UOML addresses a different set of functions. The
proposed UOML specification will operate on layout-based formatting
information, rather than content-based formatting information (such as
ODF). UOML will limit its functions to abstracting data from paper
form, and defines an operation interface, rather than a file storage
format.

Anticipated Contributions

It is expected that the existing UOML specification will be
contributed to the TC by Sursen Co., along with possible additional
contributions from HanWang Technology Co., TRS Information Technology
Co., Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co., and the Institute of Software,
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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