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OpenDocument traces it's ancestry to OpenOffice XML format, which traces it's ancestry to StarOffice, which was xmlized around the time Sun bought it in 1999

Not to be confused with Office Open XML (OOXML), Microsoft's "standard".

That's fair, I wouldn't standardize on a 1-year-old database.

Thanks for clarifying the somewhat messy history of the format!

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