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In message <[log in to unmask]>, J Martin <[log in to unmask]> writes >Anyway, back to the main question - ODF or OOXML for museums big or >small (and other people too)? Personally I don't feel too worried that there are two "competing" XML frameworks for word-processed documents. It's a whole lot better than having none, which was the position ten years ago. As users, very few of us are going to actually delve into the raw XML and get excited about the differences in encoding. At a practical level, the fact that you can open MS Office documents in Open Office and then save them in ODF format means that no-one is locked into OOXML. If you want your documentary resources to have long-term value, you might want to look beyond this debate and think about formats such as TEI (http://www.tei-c.org/). One feature of Open Office is its ability to import and particularly export in a number of formats. Sebastian Rahtz has developed filters (http://www.tei-c.org/Software/teioo/) which allow Open Office (version 2.0) to open TEI XML documents, and save OO documents as TEI XML. I have recently used the built-in ability of OO to export documents as XHTML 1.0. It does this job rather well, generating a set of CSS styles to retain the look of the original document. So maybe the answer to your question is "neither"! Richard Light -- Richard Light SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy [log in to unmask] ************************************************** For mcg information and to manage your subscription to the list, visit the website at http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk **************************************************