Standards are important just because of their enabling role in business. Without standards their wouldn’t be trains that reach other countries. Instead one train could move up to the border of one country and people had to take another train in the other country to continue a transnational journey. Everybody can understand that this is a waist of time and money.Standards in software are required to exchange information. The problem is that the information you often see on the screen has to be stored. In this process there is a transformation needed to the structure of the document in a way that it can be stored efficiently. In a world that is opening up and sharing, this storage format is more and more important.Standardization is not limited to (global) markets.Within a corporation, it is wise to standardize as much as possible. You can think of a single house-style. If documents are transferred and used within the organization in a different format edited with different office-ware, then the inter-operateability would be low. Not only the output (house-style) would be different, but also the work and rework to transform on document to another layout. In several branches of the organization different software…