Microsoft Corp. will collaborate with the Chinese government and universities to make a plug-in that will let users read and save documents written in two different XML (Extensible Markup Language) file formats.

China is developing its own XML format, UOF (Uniform Office Format), a variation that's used in applications such as RedOffice, a productivity suite forked from OpenOffice.org for the Chinese market. China's UOF group is headed by the Chinese Office Software Work Group and the Ministry of Information Industry.

Microsoft Working With Chinese on XML Converter [pcworld.com]