February 2007 - Posts

Monarch: a product for breaking into your own data
27 February 07 08:04 PM
One Open XML implementation that I find interesting for a variety of reasons is the new release of Monarch V9 from Datawatch. Brian Jones blogged about it today. This product has been around quite a while, and I took a good look at it back in 1991 when Read More...
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Open XML links for 02-25-2007
25 February 07 09:13 PM
I'm back home after a week on the road, with lots of interesting work to finish up and an overflowing in-box to attend to. But first things first: I went through all my RSS feeds this evening, and here are a few items that may be of interest to Open XML Read More...
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Night photos of Sydney
19 February 07 05:56 AM
I'm having a very busy week and may not get a chance to post anything here, so I thought I'd share a few photos instead. These were taken Monday night around midnight, in the Circular Quay area ... Read More...
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Open letter on Open XML
14 February 07 06:47 PM
There's an open letter to the community on the Microsoft interop site today that acknowledges some of the tactics that have been used to try to limit choice in document formats lately. As the letter says: When ODF was under consideration, Microsoft made Read More...
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Open XML links for 02-13-2007
13 February 07 04:15 PM
I'm having a super-busy week, so I'll let others do the talking for a change ... I just learned from Brian Jones's blog that Sun has announced they're working on adding SpreadsheetML support to OpenOffice's Calc spreadsheet program. (If you'd rather read Read More...
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Converting Office documents to Open XML
09 February 07 03:13 PM
XML-based file formats have been getting a lot of attention lately, but the vast majority of business documents worldwide are still in the binary Microsoft Office formats: DOC, XLS and PPT. And that will still be true for quite a while, because there Read More...
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Andy Updegrove's Indian Fantasy
07 February 07 07:33 AM
This morning, in my usual routine, I sipped a cup of coffee while reading the latest news around the Open XML file formats. I have a few blogs I follow regularly , and I also usually do a few searches to see what has been written in various media. The Read More...
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Linux Asia Open XML Workshop
03 February 07 09:14 PM
Friday I was one of the presenters at the Linux Asia 2007 Open XML workshop. This event took place at Delhi's India Habitat Centre, and it gave me a chance to hear some new perspectives on Open XML and file formats in general. We had about 30 attendees, Read More...
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Open XML Translator 1.0 available
02 February 07 08:05 PM
Version 1.0 of the Open XML translator project is now available on SourceForge. Here are links for the download and more information: Download the translator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter Official announcement: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/02-01OpenXMLPR.mspx Read More...
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Implementing document-format specifications
01 February 07 04:20 PM
A few folks have pointed out that implementing every detail of the Office Open XML specification would be very difficult. And that's certainly true -- implementing 100% of a document-format specification is a daunting task. A good example of the complexity Read More...
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