Benefits

openTRANS®-documents feature many characteristic criterias according their intended use, some of them are:

* wide coverage of the requirements for the excahnge of multimedia-based documents

* structure of business data in logical areas, e.g. header-data, position-data and summary

* definition of most important business documents, also openTRANS® 2.0 in detail

* separate exchange of core-and mulitmedia-based data

* exchange via internet or physical devices like USB-Storage

* data-structures and formats are based on xml (http://www.w3.org/XML/) - the standard markup language today

* openTRANS supports all character-sets of the XML-specification (like ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16)

* easy to extend for future requirements.