ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

Open XML Translator enables interoperability with ODF

OpenXML Developer — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 06:45:19 GMT

Microsoft announced yesterday that the Open XML Translator project has released version 1.0. As it says...

Open XML Translator 1.0 available

Doug Mahugh — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:12:08 GMT

Version 1.0 of the Open XML translator project is now available on SourceForge. Here are links for the

Open XML Translator 1.0 available Open XML

neuhawk — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:13:28 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2007/02/02/open-xml-translator-1-0-available.aspx ...

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

John — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:08:23 GMT

Hello Brian,

congratulations on making this. You know I have criticised you in the past, but anyway, this is really a huge leap forward to interoperability. No longer will be children at our school locked away when they bring their openoffice documents from home to work at school. And they can freely choose whether MS Office or Open Office suits them (and their money, of course) better.

John

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

John — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:11:56 GMT

Hello Brian,

John

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

BrianJones — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:15:53 GMT

Thanks John! I agree it's a great move forward. The next big step will be when OpenOffice supports OpenXML (which should be soon). Then they not only have choice of application, but also of format. :-)

Have a great weekend.

-Brian

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

Dennis E. Hamilton — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:30:41 GMT

I was stunned to read that the package is done in a way where it can be plugged into third-party products. That's very interesting.

As Craig Kitterman says,

http://blogs.msdn.com/craig/archive/2007/02/02/open-xml-translator-downloads-hit-10-000-in-6-hours.aspx

there is great discipline in this work. I have great admiration for how the team applied professional skills in a transparent, open-source project.

Having it be bi-directional is very important at defusing some of the cynicism about this work, and it will be exciting to see the next bits roll out over the course of this year.

This seems like one of those days where you get to tell yourself that you've done good work. Congratulations.

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

Joe — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:33:11 GMT

Why use that, when the <a href="http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/02/odf_as_the_perf.html">Foundation plugin</a> achieves 100% fidelity?

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

BrianJones — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:27:06 GMT

Go for it Joe :-)

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

Sam Hiser — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:24:34 GMT

Here you <a href="http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/02/odf_as_the_perf.html">go</a>, Joe...Brian.

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

Roberto Galoppini — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:24:55 GMT

Good news! Looking forward to get a SLE* mounting OpenOffice.org supporting OXML too, we might have a look into to deliver a new release of <a href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/03/22/free_conversion_to_pdf_rtf.htm">DocTransformer</a> supporting both standards!

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

Sam Hiser — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:06:52 GMT

Here you go...

http://fussnotes.typepad.com/fr0mat/2007/02/odf_as_the_perf.html

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

BrianJones — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:19:57 GMT

Thanks Sam. Hyperlinks seem to be kind of odd with the commenting tools...

Roberto, that would be awesome!

-Brian

re: ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

Tim Anderson — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:23:38 GMT

Trouble is, it's not much good, at least in my small trial.

See http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=116

Tim

Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:32:25 GMT

I'm sure many folks have seen the news by now that Open XML has been approved as an ISO/IEC standard