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Learn more about Word 2007's support for seperating data from presentation

posted Monday, June 12, 2006 2:51 PM by BrianJones
If you're heading out to TechEd this week like I am, you should definitely plan on attending Tristan Davis' talk on Thursday afternoon that covers the new functionality in Word 2007 for custom XML solutions. This talk goes into great detail on the Read More
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DocBook to WordprocessingML conversion

posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:46 PM by BrianJones
I just ran across this link today and was wondering if anyone else had checked it out: http://shudson310.blogspot.com/2006/05/docbook-xsl-170-released.html It looks like there is a docbook project up on sourceforge that has XSLT support for going from Read More
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Programmatically manipulate properties in a WordprocessingML file

posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:01 PM by BrianJones
There is a new article that will be in the June MSDN magazine that shows how to work with a Word document's properties programmatically. The author, Ken Getz has actually been working on building a collection of code snippets that people can use to do Read More
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Create your own simple Open XML editor

posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:23 AM by BrianJones
You can create your very own Open XML editor! Over on openxmldeveloper.org, there is a new article that shows how you can quickly generate an extremely simple editor for creating WordprocessingML files. When I say "really simple" I mean it though. I'm Read More
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What about Word 2003's XML format?

posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:48 AM by BrianJones
I've had a few folks ask me about the XML format from Word 2003, and whether or not it would be supported in Word 2007. I mentioned this back in the fall, but in case you missed it let me repeat that the Word 2003 format will continue to be supported Read More
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Introduction to Word documents

posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:15 AM by BrianJones
Now that folks have had a chance to work with Beta 1 for a few months, I wanted to take some time to give a high level overview of the three different document formats. Today I'm going to focus on Word. Obviously there is a huge set of features and functionality Read More
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Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)

posted Monday, January 09, 2006 6:11 AM by BrianJones
  I hope everyone had a great new year. Sorry I've taken so much time off from blogging. I was pretty busy last week just getting caught up on e-mail. For those of you who posted comments, or sent comments to me directly, I'll try to get to them Read More
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Example Word '12' document from Beta 1 with hyperlink and image

posted Friday, December 02, 2005 12:21 PM by BrianJones
I just posted another example document if any is interested. http://jonesxml.com/resources/hyperlinkandimage.docx For those of you that got a copy of Beta 1, the file will be compatible with your build, so you can open it and take a look. This is an extremely Read More
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Word '12' Presentation on Customer XML Support Available Online (PDC)

posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:36 PM by BrianJones
For those of you who watched my PDC presentation that I posted on the other week, you probably noticed a demo where I had a document structured with controls that were bound to XML data. We did a lot of work in Word 12 to allow you to create mappings Read More
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Real world example: Shredding Office documents and storing in a backend database

posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:35 PM by BrianJones
I've been receiving various e-mails from folks showing solutions they are building on top of the existing Office XML support, and I wanted to start posting some of these examples. Today, I wanted to post an e-mail I received from Robert Nederby who works Read More
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Knowledge is the "key" when talking about XML support in Office

posted Friday, October 21, 2005 3:33 PM by BrianJones
There has been a lot of speculation over what the XML support in Office really entails. I think knowledge is really the key here, and I ask all of you who are interested to take some time to actually get your feet wet and understand the facts. I've made Read More
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More tools that work on top of Word XML

posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:59 AM by BrianJones
There is a company called CambridgeDocs that has built a tool that will transform from WordML into XSL-FO. Here's a link to their site: http://www.cambridgedocs.com/products_wordml2FO.htm This is just another example of a group that has leveraged the Read More
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Example of using XSLT to import DB info into Word

posted Monday, October 17, 2005 2:52 PM by BrianJones
Here's a blog entry I just came across where the user is building an XSLT that will transform their data into WordprocessingML (http://dbdesc.com/blog/?p=10). It's followed up by another post that was made today (http://dbdesc.com/blog/?p=11). This is Read More
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Converting WordprocessingML into HTML (for easy viewing)

posted Friday, September 30, 2005 11:21 AM by BrianJones
Many people have asked me if there is an easy way to go from Word XML into XHTML. I've already mentioned that we have a tool available that transforms from Word 2003 XML into HTML. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=19676b18-1bcd-4852-93ba-0b5a203ea731&displaylang=en Read More
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Intro to Word XML Part 6: Locking down your XML structures

posted Friday, September 09, 2005 2:31 PM by BrianJones
What a busy week. I've been trying to keep up with all the news while also getting ready for PDC (and still keeping up with all my regular responsibilities helping to ship Office 12). I'm heading down to PDC on Monday, and my session is Tuesday afternoon. Read More
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