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Deck from my XML 2005 presentation available

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats — Wed, 24 May 2006 04:19:24 GMT

I've had a number of folks who attended my session at the XML 2005 conference ask me if the deck was...

re: Office '12' File Format Presentation available online (PDC)

I'm Brian Jones — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:36:17 GMT

Hey Rodrigo, PowerPoint is also moving to a new XML file format. So you can just use standard ZIP and XML to parse and generate powerpoint presentations.

You can get a preview of the schemas here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=15805380-f2c0-4b80-9ad1-2cb0c300aef9&displaylang=en

There are two download choices for you. You can get them packaged as an msi, or as a zip file.

-Brian

What about PowerPoint?

Rodrigo — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:18:47 GMT

I watched some webcasts about VSTO and Word/Excel and it looks great.

Unfortunately I am not finding much stuff regarding PowerPoint support, so I wonder whether that will be also supported. What I need to do is to create a ppt file in the server side (aspx) and create some charts in it, pulling the data out from a dataset.

Would that be possible or am I stuck with Office automation for a few years more?

re: Office '12' File Format Presentation available online (PDC)

I'm Brian Jones — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:51:36 GMT

Hey Darryl, I'm really excited about the custom defined schema support we have in Office 12. The support in 2003 was a great first step, and I think we've definitely built on that momentum. I'll post more about the ways you can integrate the data with the presentation... to answer your questions though:

1. There are actually two pieces to this. The first is the support for custom defined XML files to be placed in the ZIP package. I talk about this here: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/11/04/489223.aspx

The second piece to that is the ability to map nodes from the custom XML into the surface of the document via content controls. The content controls are based on the same technology we used for the custom schema support in 2003, and I'll talk more about that in future posts.

2. You can place as many XML files as you want into the ZIP package. As I discuss in that post I mentioned; we allow you to put your own XML files into the ZIP package and we'll load those into memory when the document is opened and provide programatic access. There is no direct support for integrating the items in the datastore with the mailmerge functionality though. You could definitely do this programatically if you wanted. Another alternative is to use the content controls and map them to the different nodes in the seperate data tables.

3. I'll try to get a copy up quickly after Beta 1 is released (I want to use the most up to date build).

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Sagi, we do not support XSL-FO directly, but there are a number of tools out there that have this support. I've talked about this in previous blog entries:
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/10/20/483161.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/08/11/450539.aspx

-Brian