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A document file format is a text or binary file format for storing documents on a storage media, especially for use by computers. A text file (sometimes spelled "textfile" is a kind of Computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines. A computer file is a block of Arbitrary Information, or resource for storing information which is available to a Computer program and is usually A document (noun is a bounded physical representation of body of Information designed with the capacity (and usually intent to Communicate. Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to Computer components devices and recording media that retain digital A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. There currently exist a multitude of incompatible document file formats. The file format currently used by Microsoft Word (. Microsoft Word is Microsoft 's flagship word processing software. doc) is arguably the most widespread de facto-standard.

A rough consensus has been established that XML is to be the basis for future document file formats. Don't change "Extensible" Open XML-based standards include DocBook and, more recently, OpenDocument and Office Open XML. An open format is a published specification for storing digital data usually maintained by a Standards organization, which basically can be used and implemented by anyone DocBook is a semantic Markup language for technical Documentation. The OpenDocument format (ODF is a File format for electronic office documents such as Spreadsheets Charts presentations and Office Open XML (also referred to as OOXML or OpenXML) is a File format for representing Spreadsheets Charts Presentations OpenDocument became an ISO standard on May 3, 2006. However Microsoft will be using the Office Open XML document format standardized through Ecma International which is currently under standardization in ISO. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Ecma International (Ecma is an international private (membership-based non-profit Standards organization for information and communication systems

In 1993 the ITU-T tried to establish a standard for document file formats, known as the Open Document Architecture (ODA) which was supposed to replace all competing document file formats. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector ( ITU-T) coordinates standards for telecommunications on behalf of the International Telecommunication The Open Document Architecture (or sometimes referred to as Office Document Architecture or just ODA) is a free and open International standard It is described in ITU-T documents T. 411 through T. 421, which are equivalent to ISO 8613. It did not succeed.

Page description programming languages such as PostScript and PDF have become the de facto-standard for documents that a typical user should only be able to be read, not edit. A programming language is an Artificial language that can be used to write programs which control the behavior of a machine particularly a Computer. PostScript ( PS) is a dynamically typed concatenative Programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982

Common document file formats

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Don't change "Extensible" A document (noun is a bounded physical representation of body of Information designed with the capacity (and usually intent to Communicate. List of file formats (alphabeticalThis is a list of File formats organized by type as can be found on Computers Filename extensions are usually noted in The following is a list of Document markup languages Well-known document markup languages HyperText Markup Language (HTML Mathematical The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of Document markup languages Please see the individual markup languages' articles for further information An open format is a published specification for storing digital data usually maintained by a Standards organization, which basically can be used and implemented by anyone
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