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.