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Using XHTML in a WordprocessingML document

posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:07 PM by BrianJones
This question has come up a few times, most recently over on the OpenXMLDeveloper site (http://openxmldeveloper.org/forums/477/ShowThread.aspx#477) The challenge a lot of folks have is that they want to generate a WordprocessingML document using pre-existing Read More
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Parsing WordprocessingML using XLinq

posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:15 AM by BrianJones
Here's a post from Eric White where he provides some code samples for using XLinq to parse a WordprocessingML document: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/archive/2006/08/01/685535.aspx Here's the description of what Eric was trying to accomplish: "Recently, Read More
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Code snippets for generating WordprocessingML files

posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:01 PM by BrianJones
There are now a handful of code snippets from Wouter available over on the openxmldeveloper.org site that you should check out. He's been pulling these together over the past couple weeks, and they are really looking good. Here's what he has up there 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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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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