Slashdot reports that Miguel de Icaza, founder of GNOME and Mono, recently remarked in a Google groups discussion that Open XML is a “superb standard” and that the spec has been unfairly criticized. “ OOXML is a superb standard and yet, it has been FUDed so badly by its competitors that serious people...

I've blogged about this before. Now I See there is a sourceforge project supporting the use of Java to access openXML docs. Brian Jones has the scoop: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2007/03/20/programming-against-the-openxml-formats-with-java.aspx

Want to learn about Open XML from the source? There's an opportunity coming up March 13-15 on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. It's called the Open XML Deep Dive developer workshop . If you’re adopting Open XML, and need deep technical training on the details of the format, including the...

A while back, the OpenXmlDeveloper.org website offered an example of how to create a WordProcessingML document from within Java code. I even referenced it briefly here . Remember, WordProcessingML is the document format produced and consumed by Microsoft Word 2007, and the format will also be supported...

Microsoft has announced that the next version of Office (unofficially "Office 12") will deliver support for a new set of XML file formats. Calling them " the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats ", Microsoft wants to produce a more compact, simpler format that is more easily programmable, more reliable...