Uniform Office Format (UOF;Chinese:标文通,lit. "standard text general"),[1] sometimes known asUnified Office Format, is anopen standard foroffice applications developed inChina.[2] It includes word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet modules, and is made up ofGUI,API, and format specifications. The document format described usesXML contained in a compressed file container, similar toOpenDocument andOffice Open XML.
The working group that produced the standard was founded in January 2002, and the first draft of the specification was produced in December 2005.
A number of applications list support for the Uniform Office Format; listed alphabetically they include:
EIOffice 2009 is said to be based on UOF.[3] It uses binder files withfile extension EIO (.eio). In the latest version 5.0.1272.101 it doesn't open or save files with extensions .uof, .uot, .uos or .uop. The documentation of EIOffice states it is possible to publish documents in "Unit Office Format (XML)"[4]
OpenOffice.org andLibreOffice from version 3 can open and save files in "Unified Office Format" with file extensions .uof, .uot, .uos, .uop (text, spreadsheet, presentation)[5] (This also applies to version 3 of NeoOffice, a popular variant of OpenOffice for the Macintosh.).[5][6]
Software is available to convert from ODF to UOF and the other way round.[10] The software was developed between November 2005 and October 2006 by theOpen Standard Lab ofPeking University.[11]
Software is being developed at ACT (The Institute of Advanced Computing Technology) at Beihang University to convert from OOXML to UOF andvice versa.[12]
At the "World Trade Organization IPRs Issues in Standardization" conference in Beijing (April 2007), convened by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, theChina State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) andSun Microsystems,Scott McNealy, the Chairman of Sun Microsystems called for a merger ofOASIS/ISO's ODF and China's UOF.[13]While both formats are open, there are significant technical challenges in achieving a merger, as the two formats have made different fundamental choices in how to describe documents.[14][15]
A comparison document between ODF and UOF is available from the ODF-UOF project on SourceForge.[16]
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