Sorry to have taken so long between blog posts. I was off in London all last week for the latest face to face meeting of Ecma TC45 at the British Library. It was a great meeting and we made a ton of progress. Unfortunately, I haven't had any time to blog...

Well, I’m off to the next Ecma TC45 face to face meeting where we’ll continue to make progress in the Open XML format standardization effort. This time we’re meeting out in London. Adam Farquhar of the British Library is the Vice-Chair of TC45, and he...

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...

I've had a few folks ask me about other industry standard schemas out there like HR-XML, XBRL, DocBook, etc. The out of the box schemas that are supported are WordprocessingML, SpreadsheetML, and PresenatationML. As I've discussed numerous times though...

I've really dropped the ball here over the past several months. I'd been meaning to post some example PresentationML files and give everyone a walkthrough of the format, but I keep falling behind. Sorry folks. Today, I'd like to give you a basic overview...

Here's another example of folks getting ready to take advantage of the Open XML formats for their business solutions. The newly announced BioIT alliance ( http://www.medadnews.com/News/Index.cfm?articleid=328651 ) was formed to help connect the pharmaceutical...

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...