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July 2006 - Posts

Sample code for generating a SpreadsheetML file

posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:57 AM by BrianJones
Doug Mahugh has another post on programmatically generating a basic Office Open XML file. This latest post shows how to create a simple SpreadsheetML file: This post covers the code for a CreateXlsx program that creates a simple Open XML spreadsheet Read More
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Politics behind standardization

posted Friday, July 14, 2006 6:00 PM by BrianJones
Stephen McGibbon has an interesting blog post based on his observations of the politics behind standardization. He's been involved in a lot of the ODF and Open XML discussions and started looking deeper into the reasons behind ODF going through ISO even Read More
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New project for converting WordprocessingML to HTML

posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:53 AM by BrianJones
It looks like there is a new project starting up on the OpenXMLDeveloper.org community for transforming WordprocessingML into HTML using XSLT. The first article posted here (http://openxmldeveloper.org/articles/333.aspx) starts off just mapping into basic Read More
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Word XHTML - Bullets and Numbering

posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:34 AM by BrianJones
This is the fourth post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature. In earlier posts, Zeyad discussed a general overview of the XHTML, details on XHML compliance, and how we map styles to semantics. Today Zeyad is discussing Read More
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More information on the Open XML translator and some questions answered

posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:48 AM by BrianJones
There were a lot of great comments from last week's announcement about the creation of an open source project to transform between the Ecma Office Open XML formats and the OASIS OpenDocument format. Rather than respond to all the comments and questions Read More
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Open XML Translator project announced (ODF support for Office)

posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:03 PM by BrianJones
Today we are announcing the creation of the Open XML Translator project that will help translate between the Office Open XML formats and the OpenDocument format. We've talked a lot about the value the Open XML formats bring, and one of them of course Read More
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TechEd presentation on Office Open XML available for download

posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:00 PM by BrianJones
For those of you who weren't able to attend my talk at TechEd 2006 on the file formats, you can actually view it online here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032297834&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Read More
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