Meine Anforderungen an Textverarbeitung

• Hohe Verbreitung des Speicherformats
• Zukunftssichere Software
• Indizierung durch gängige SuchMaschinen
• Kompatibilität mit Microsoft Word Format

Meine Kandidaten für Textverarbeitung

• Microsoft Word (weil am weitesten verbreitet, z.B. für SuchMaschinen, Viewer, Metadaten,…)
• OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org (weil OpenSourceSoftware, Cross-Plattform, gute Verbreitung und Community, Microsoft-konpatibel)
• AbiWord http://www.abiword.com (weil OpenSourceSoftware, Cross-Plattform, schlank, Unterstützung für DocBook und XSL-FO,…)

Word processors and XML

By using XML to store documents, word processors can gain in portability and compatibility.

Abiword is a small, fast, OpenSourceSoftware word processor that stores text documents in XML format. It is able to export and import text to and from XSL-FO and DocBook. Abiword transforms documents from its own format into subsets of DocBook or XSL-FO and vice versa. By doing so — and with a little massage from external programs — one can obtain different output from a single document source.

Another word processor that uses XML to store documents is StarWriter, a component of StarOffice and OpenOffice. Its DTD is available for download at the OpenOffice Web site (see Resources).

— Main.DietrichKracht – 28 Nov 2004