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Dear Reader, Position: ODA (Office Document Architecture) provides a standard for document interchange (Office Document Interchange Format, ODIF). The ODIF may in a sense be seen as a pendant of the tag format as defined by the SGML declarations part. The way raster or geometric graphics and character contents are exchanged in ODA is not part of the SGML standard, as the interpretation of such data parts are left to the application. It is however likely that such 'content portions' will be standardized under SGML in the near future. In the area of content descriptions ODA standards may be merged into an 'extended SGML'. Do you think this is a correct statement? Arjan Loeffen