OpenXML Community Growing

[Open XML] La communauté OpenXML s'agrandit avec www.openxmlcommunity.org

Blog de Neodante (Julien Chable) — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:10:16 GMT

C'est Brian Jones qui nous l'apprend avec grand plaisir ce matin (du moins de ce côté du globe) dans

[Open XML] La communauté Open XML s'agrandit avec www.openxmlcommunity.org

Blog de Neodante (Julien Chable) — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:56:15 GMT

C'est Brian Jones qui nous l'apprend avec grand plaisir ce matin (du moins de ce côté du globe) dans

OpenXMLCommunity.org

Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:20:18 GMT

The Open XML Community site launched yesterday, with an inaugural list of members including over 300

OpenXMLCommunity.org

Walter Stiers - Academic Relations Team (BeLux) — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:58:46 GMT

The Open XML Community site launched yesterday, with an inaugural list of members including over 300

German standards body creates new working group to focus on interoperability

Brian Jones: Open XML Formats — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:56:23 GMT

I was having lunch with Jean Paoli today and he told me about this press release that came out this morning

re: OpenXML Community Growing

Wesley Parish — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:38:40 GMT

What license terms is the OpenXML Writer published under? It should be published in the ReadMe, or a License.txt file or some such file, but I can't see it. (I learnt to check such matters very, very carefully, and it bugs me that I can't find that out from any of the .cs or .xml or .csproj files I've checked.)

You see, "Open Source" isn't merely a matter of having the source available; it's also a matter of having the rights and duties of the developers, both original and later, clearly defined. The OpenXML Writer source code doesn't itself define those matters at all. And there is no documentation included with them to define them either. And that naturally makes me very, very wary.

re: OpenXML Community Growing

BrianJones — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:51:39 GMT

Not sure Wesley. I haven't played around with the writer at all. Someone had pointed it out to me awhile back and I made a note to myself to eventually blog about it.

According to their information it's open source, but if you don't think that's accurate you should see if you can get in contact with them directly. Let me know what find out.

-Brian

re: OpenXML Community Growing

Wesley Parish — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:31:24 GMT

Hi, Brian, I got in touch with the OpenXML Writer group and they replied. It's under the Microsoft Community License, which is good - it's a short and clear license that does fit the Open Source Definition.

Now I can be confident that there aren't any gotchas if I read the source and use it appropriately.

(The OpenXML Writer source tree does provide a little bit more "documentation" shall we say, about ECMA 376, in actual use. OpenXML.biz should also provide equivalent utilities and source trees for the other aspects of ECMA 376 (eg, Presentation, Spreadsheeting, etc) if they want it even better understood. Code is law, to quote Lessing, and Microsoft has been quite remiss in providing enough code for its XML office file format. ;)

re: OpenXML Community Growing

BrianJones — Wed, 16 May 2007 20:55:40 GMT

Thanks for the update Wesley.

I hear you on the value of code, and I'll look for ways to make the formats easier to understand and build solutions with.

-Brian

OpenXML Community Growing

Evans Thompson's Blog — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:08:54 GMT

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OpenXML Community Growing

Evans Thompson's Blog — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:09:02 GMT

[Open XML] Les outils autour de Open XML

Blog de Neodante (Julien Chable) — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:26:16 GMT

Voici une liste rapide des outils qui gravitent autour du format de document bureautique Open XML (merci

OpenXML Community Growing

tribe.net: blogs.msdn.com — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:19:40 GMT

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