Evaluate the Interoperability of Document Format: Based on Translation Practice of OOXML and UOF

Yaohu Lin; Xuelian Lin; Ning Li; Yongmin Mu

doi:10.3390/info6020111

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Evaluate the Interoperability of Document Format: Based on Translation Practice of OOXML and UOF

Yaohu Lin,
Xuelian Lin,
Ning Li,
Yongmin Mu

Affiliations

Yaohu Lin: Department of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Xuelian Lin: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Ning Li: Computer School, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100101, China
Yongmin Mu: Computer School, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100101, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/info6020111
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 2
pp. 111 – 121

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Taking both OOXML and UOF standards as examples, we empirically evaluate the interoperability of office document formats from the view of translation practice. With the aim of covering the complete feature set of OOXML and UOF, a novel UOF-Open XML Translator is developed in this study. Thorough experiments demonstrate that our translator implements bidirectional conversion of 80.4% features perfectly and 9.9% features with acceptable discrepancy. Regarding the remaining 9.7% features, more efforts would be taken in future work.

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ISSN: 2078-2489 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Technology (General): Industrial engineering. Management engineering: Information technology
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