OOXML vs. ODF - Should Ed Tech care?

Those of us in educational technology, at least in the K-12 segment, don’t tend to produce a lot of documents that someone will want to read in 10 years. At the university level, where the publish or perish dogma is a alive and well, researchers are producing plenty of documents that should outlive their own tenure. Obviously, electronic versions of such documents need to be machine- and human-readable decades down the road (Have you ever used a microfiche? It’s not as much fun as it sounds.). Herein lies the crux of XML-based document formats. If you have the XML schema, you can read the document. Unlike previous versions of most Word documents, for example, that were proprietary binary formats, readable…

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