The International Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), November 4, approved the China Electronics Standardization Association (CESA) Unstructured Operation Markup Language (UOML) as the first ever international standard developed in China, securing China's advance position in the multi-billion dollar business of electronic documents.

UOML is a read and write access standard for electronic documents that defines operations for reading and writing between documents structured in different formats.

The UOML standard received 51 votes for approval from OASIS members including international companies, academies and user groups such as Google, HP, UC Berkeley, Fujitsu, Nokia, U.S. Defense Department, Boeing, Lockheed, Schneider Electric, Forestry Commission of Great Britain and Korean Ministry of Information and Communication.

(China IP News)