August 2007 - Posts

Oh, the drama of it all!
30 August 07 04:02 PM
The ISO voting on Open XML is delivering even more drama this week than I expected. In addition to the reality of what's going on, IBM and their friends are finding all sorts of imaginary dragons to slay, or at least to talk about. The search for the Read More...
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Open XML workshop videos
29 August 07 12:44 PM
MSDN has published the complete set of videos of the San Francisco Open XML developer workshop that was hosted by Mindjet in June. This was one of the series of workshops that we did in over 30 locations this spring, covering the content that was recently Read More...
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US passes motion for "Yes with comments"
24 August 07 09:11 AM
The INCITS executive board in the US has passed a motion to vote "Yes with comments" on DIS 29500, Office Open XML. Voting details can be found here . "OOXML Fails to Gain Approval in US" "OOXML Approval Vote Fails in INCITS" Read More...
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Server-side document creation
23 August 07 09:53 AM
Erika Ehrli has a great post on "Building Server-Side Document Generation Solutions" that shows how to build custom report generator helper classes that can make document generation much simpler for those working in the .NET environment. And being Erika, Read More...
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inching toward September 2
21 August 07 07:58 AM
The September 2 vote on DIS 29500 is rapidly approaching, and Jason Matusow has posted a wrap-up of where things stand in the US: Open XML - US Vote Progress Continues . As Jason explains, the INCITS executive board is considering whether to submit an Read More...
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Open XML development book
14 August 07 10:08 AM
Wouter Van Vugt's book "Open XML Explained" is now available for free download from OpenXMLDeveloper.org. The book is based on the content used in the Open XML developer workshops ( available here ), with several additional topics included as well. At Read More...
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Developer workshop content
10 August 07 08:08 AM
If you've attended one of the Open XML Developer workshops that I and others have delivered in the last few months, you probably received a bunch of presentations, hands-on labs with complete source code, lab manuals, and demo files. We passed out that Read More...
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Breaking out of the rut
09 August 07 11:07 AM
The Open XML standardization debate has been going on long enough that there are some recurring themes which we've all seen many times now: the list of Groklaw comments and various responses to them from Ecma, Microsoft, and others; the long list of comments Read More...
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Open XML links for 08-06-2007
06 August 07 03:53 PM
Nuance OmniPage supports Open XML. Nuance's best-selling OmniPage Professional 16 has been released with support for DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats . There are many conversion and translation tools available for digital formats, but OmniPage bridges the Read More...
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Massachusetts ETRM V4.0 recommends Open XML and ODF 1.1
01 August 07 06:06 PM
A month ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts posted a draft of its revised Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM) policy, requesting comments from the public. As I noted in a post on June 30 , "The ETRM (Enterprise Technical Reference Model) provides Read More...
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