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profile
In electronic document standards work, a profile consists of a defined superset or subset of a specification with fully specified conformance requirements essential to achieve interoperability among implementing applications. Complex technical specifications often have many optional features, making interoperability problematic because of differences as to which options are supported. Although profiles are widely used in other types of data formats, their utility was generally neglected in standards for the office productivity software sector before the W3C's CDRF was introduced. E.g., neither ODF nor OOXML have been profiled for interoperability purposes.