Driven profiling of open standards for office applications

The exchange of electronic documents between organizations, administrations and citizens is of growing relevance. Connected to this, the interoperability of office application documents is of essential interest. Even though the introduction of open standards in the field of office application fundamentally increased the degree of compatibility, interoperability issues still exist. As a result of this, the idea of the utilization of interoperability profiles emerged in relating OASIS and ISO committees. This paper proposes a feature driven but widely format independent approach for the profiling of office document standards that can magnificently simplify the definition of domain specific profiles.