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June 2007 - Posts

Monday, June 18, 2007 6:22 PM

Microsoft Office *not* dumped by Science and Nature

I saw this article today, and wanted to make sure that folks weren't confused about the latest with some of the publishers out there like Science as well as Nature. As I said last week, Murray and I have been talking with them trying to better understand
Posted by BrianJones | 20 Comments
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:05 PM

Open XML in Science and Nature; Deploying Office 2007; and more…

Here are a few interesting links I came across this week: Open XML in Science and Nature - Murray Sargent gives another update on the discussions we've been having with the folks from Science as well as Nature. They have some really cool publishing processes,
Posted by BrianJones | 51 Comments
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:00 PM

IBM shows off solutions for OpenXML

Stephen was telling me about this article that IBM had written that demonstrated: "consuming and repurposing MS Office 2007 documents is easy with IBM DB2 pureXML features. There really is not much code involved which is conducive to great performance."
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Monday, June 11, 2007 4:58 PM

HP asks for Open XML approval at ISO

The member list over at OpenXMLCommunity.org is definitely growing rapidly. I think they've already more than doubled the number of registered supporters since it started last month. I recently saw this statement from HP about the standardization of Office
Posted by BrianJones | 2 Comments
Friday, June 08, 2007 3:46 AM

Altova’s XMLSpy supports Open XML

Altova's XMLSpy now has rich support for working with the Open XML formats. As they say in their press release: XMLSpy provides powerful support for accessing, editing, transforming, and querying XML data saved in Microsoft® Office 2007 documents and
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:14 PM

Wouter’s updates on the ISO meetings

Wouter has been participating in the Dutch ISO standardization meetings where they are looking of Open XML. He has some interesting observations: Talking about the OOXML standard One thing that really struck me at the meeting was the open statement of
Posted by BrianJones | 7 Comments
Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:36 AM

Article on “Using Java to Crack Office 2007”

There is an article up on InfoQ showing how you can use Java to work with the Open XML formats. Go ahead and take a look: http://www.infoq.com/articles/cracking-office-2007-with-java While the title of the article says Office 2007, you all know that Open
Posted by BrianJones | 3 Comments
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:31 AM

More blogs on the Open XML dev tools

Some more folks posted about the Open XML formats SDK which we released yesterday as a technology preview: Kevin Boske – Kevin gives a great example of how the new SDK can already significantly reduce the amount of code you need to write, simply by giving
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Monday, June 04, 2007 10:40 AM

Open XML SDK – tech preview

Last week I pointed out the open source project to create a Java library for programming against the open xml formats. Well today at TechEd we announced the release of an early preview of a managed API for the Open XML formats. It's available for download
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Friday, June 01, 2007 9:07 AM

Open XML Java Library

The OpenXML4J project website is now up and running: http://www.openxml4j.org/ This is an open source project to create a Java library for consuming and generating files in the Open XML formats. Here's a diagram of their planned architecture: As they
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