Simple wordprocessingML document (video demo)

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats : Simple wordprocessingML document (video demo)

Weddings — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:39:36 GMT

Are the Office Open XML formats too complex? Not really. They are definitely very rich, but the structure of the formats is pretty simple. As you start to get into more complicated features, the complexity of the formats also kicks in though. To show

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats : Simple wordprocessingML document (video demo)

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Brian Jones: Open XML Formats : Simple wordprocessingML document (video demo)

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Images in Open XML documents

Doug Mahugh — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:13:23 GMT

Images are one of the basic elements of a document, and the use of images in documents continues to grow.

Simple SpreadsheetML file Part 1 of 3

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:50:36 GMT

I posted a bunch of "Intro to SpreadsheetML" posts about a year or so ago, but those were all based on

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Doug Mahugh — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:06:58 GMT

One of the key benefits of the Open XML file formats is that they support all of the things you can do

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Brian Jones: Open XML Formats — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:29:24 GMT

I'd been meaning to post a write-up on how to create a simple SpreadsheetML document from scratch, but

re: Simple wordprocessingML document (video demo)

I'm Brian Jones — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:29:19 GMT

D. Wang,

The formats were primarily designed to be operated on my a program, not hand edited. That said, we did want hand editing to also be possible. For your specific point around the OnOff simplet type, that was done primarily because of the behavior of the XML formats from Office XP & Office 2003. It's not too difficult to deal with, as "0", "off", and "false" all mean exactly the same thing; same goes for "1", "on", and "true".

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Filip,

I'll definitely work on getting a similar one together for both spreadsheetML and presentationML

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Francis,

You are correct that the relationships are not used 100% of the time (but it's pretty close). In most cases we use relationships, but there are times when attempting to replace the URL within a larger string with a relationship ID was quite buggy and as a result the URL remained directly inline. This is true for field codes, as well as for certain spreadsheet features. I was dissapointed with this, but you can't always be perfect. :-)

-Brian

re: Simple wordprocessingML document (video demo)

Francis — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:17:42 GMT

"Any reference to a resource (whether it be directly within the ZIP package, or it be an outside file) is done with relationships."

That is not 100% true. Word field codes directly refer to absolute (and absolute only) paths.

re: Simple wordprocessingML document (video demo)

Filip — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:42:24 GMT

Great article. It would be very nice if you could do a similar article on SpreadsheetML? Exporting a set of records to Excel seems like one of the most frequently done integration tasks.