Doug Mahugh
Open XML file formats
December 2006 - Posts
Wrapping up 2006
31 December 06 01:05 PM
I'm taking a few days off for the New Year celebration, and I hope you are too. The work will still be there next week, I'm sure. Meanwhile, here are a couple of links that Open XML developers may find interesting during this otherwise quiet week ...
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Searching Open XML documents
19 December 06 09:39 AM
Searching documents for text strings is a common task in many type of applications. And there are many possible variations on this simple concept: whether to search the body of the document or its metadata, whether to restrict your search to specific
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Finding WindowsBase.dll
14 December 06 10:31 PM
OK, what's the deal with WindowsBase.dll? It's the dll where the System.IO.Packaging API lives, and you have to add a reference to it in your project before you can use the packaging API. And it's never there at the end of the .NET tab on my "Add Reference"
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SpreadsheetML documents in a browser
13 December 06 05:46 PM
Muthu Kumar Arjunan has posted the second article in his series on XSL transformation of SpreadsheetML data over on OpenXmlDeveloper.org . This article looks at how to generated a paginated set of documents (HTML pages) from a large spreadsheet, using
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Backgrounds in WordprocessingML
13 December 06 12:26 AM
Part 3 (Primer) and Part 4 (Markup Language Reference) of the Ecma Office Open XML spec have many XML markup examples that demonstrate various concepts. Pasting those samples into a minimal test document is a good way to learn about how Open XML works.
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Rsids explained
11 December 06 10:51 PM
There's an interesting post on Brian Jones's blog today about how rsids work in Open XML documents . The use of rsids provides a simple and flexible mechanism for merging changes two users make to the same document, and if you've looked inside many Open
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Mac support for Open XML
11 December 06 11:08 AM
Some people are wondering how Microsoft Office for the Mac will support Open XML, and there has been some speculation on this lately in the press and blogs. I just wanted to clarify where things stand, based on the latest information from the Office for
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Images in Open XML documents
10 December 06 04:09 PM
Images are one of the basic elements of a document, and the use of images in documents continues to grow. Just a few years ago, it was relatively uncommon to have an image in a word-processing document, and downright rare to see one in a spreadsheet.
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Open XML in Estonia
10 December 06 02:29 PM
At the launch of Office/Vista/Exchange (LOVE, get it?) in Estonia 10 days ago, Microsoft Student Partner Kristjan Kongo gave a presentation on Open XML and showed off some demos of the kinds of developer opportunities that Open XML offers. Thanks for
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New blog look
09 December 06 08:10 PM
I've rolled out a new look and new structure for this blog today. The goal was to make it more readable and usable, and to refine the scope a bit. In the past I've covered various Office developer topics, but going forward I'll be focused 100% on Open
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Vive la Révolution Open XML
08 December 06 02:23 PM
What a week! First we had Novell's announcement of Open XML support in OpenOffice , which came just after a similar announcement of plans for Open XML support in Corel's Wordperfect Office X3 suite . And then the really big news we've all been waiting
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Updated CreateDocx/CreateXlsx
05 December 06 02:57 AM
Here at the Open XML workshop in Paris this week, Jerome Berthaud pointed out to me that my CreateXlsx sample program required a bit more than just updating to the final Ecma schemas in order to get it running under the RTM. It seems that there are some
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diffopc+ -- if you need this, you need it bad
01 December 06 01:57 PM
The best just got better. A few weeks ago, I blogged about Stephane Rodriguez's diffopc utility , a freeware program for analyzing the difference between OPC packages such as Open XML documents or XPS documents. Now Stephane has upgraded diffopc to a
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